Do you ever wonder what you will look like when you are eighty, ninety, or even a hundred? I just don’t. I have never stared into the mirror and tried to see the woman in my future. I am a live-one-day-at-a-time kind of girl. Since I turned fifty, I have started each day with a …
It’s been going on since before we were married. It started out of peer pressure, because everyone he knew was doing it. At first, I think it felt almost like work for him, but then it developed into real passion. She became an official mistress about 20 years ago, when we were living in another …
Don’t you just love surprises? The kind that totally catch you off guard and make you smile all day long? A couple of weekends ago, on an early Saturday morning, I headed off for my regular run. My running partner, Ericka S., was out of town, so I was on my own this particular day. Hooked in …
The subject of giving advice is old and cliched. Nagging moms and moms-in-law are reminded to “keep their mouths shut and pockets open.” We’re told that the kids know what to do. They have to make their own mistakes. And if we know what is good for us and our relationships with our adult kids, …
Before and after Katrina is how we mark time down here in Louisiana. We just passed the 8-year anniversary of that milestone hurricane. The lives we knew were washed away when the levees broke. For my high school friend, Karen and I, it marked the washing away of our long-term marriages. My husband moved out the week …
