One of my favorite history tutors recently went home to his reward — David McCullough. Since March of 2020, I have been a grateful participant in one-on-one tutorials by many authors through LIBBY.* (The library reading App) And David McCullough was one of my...
Fifty years ago, what was YOUR song? You know that little tune that just captured your romance? OK - maybe you weren't even alive 50 years ago. This time 50 years ago, a very specific melody went through my curler laden head. My bridesmaids had arrived and I was...
Looking back, before COVID erupted in March 2020, Doug and I may have had it! Something fast and harsh knocked us for a loop in February. I caught what I thought was a cold and shared. That wasn’t a kind thing. Doug wound up on heavy meds. Shortly after we...
Two editorial headlines this morning captured why I often feel so wobbly nowadays: Homeless Encampments No Longer Tolerated and A Wonder to Behold. It’s ironic, isn’t it — what we can do with such precision in space; yet what we have failed to do time and again on...
TV news, handheld devices limit my focus; so, sometimes it’s just good to have a reason to look up. (NASA: Landscape of a Star Birth) And I am grateful for the scientists who figured how to really look up, way up. Or are we looking back? ( A Dying Star ) I don’t...
Exhaustion Exhaustion is not an uncommon companion at my age and stage. While this feeling of fatigue reminds me of how I felt in 1968, it is more palpable and David French's description captures well the worn-outness I feel. But, also the hope: “ . . . The...
I Have that degree Somewhere For somebody with a college degree, I am one who understands very few of any of the devices upon which I rely.* That’s why The Way Things Work by David Macaulay — among many of his illustrated books —was such a practical tutorial for...
Cogitating on things this glorious morning in June, enjoying perhaps the last drier day for a spell, I am soaking up other people’s wisdom. For example, I didn’t know if President Lincoln actually declared what I am feeling: “I have been driven many times upon my...
Half a century ago, we were angry with each other and the government because of the Vietnam war, civil rights — and Watergate. Then the Supreme Court decided abortion was a constitutional right. (9 Things You Should Know About Roe v Wade) Fifty years ago,...
Memory lane can be one scary slog. CNN walked me back down Watergate-memory lane; John Dean was the tour guide — to events that feel like yesterday, but happened a half-century ago! I wonder how many people born after 1973 understand what happened. People have said,...
I don’t know if I ever did the math to figure I’d be alive in 2022 . . . but here I am. What did I ever learn that prepared me for staying alive in 2022? Understanding What My Father Used to Say Well . . . I remember my father telling me the shortest distance...
Memorial Day 2022 reminds to think upon the rights I have because of the soldiers who gave up some of their rights. I sit in safety and comfort and peace today because of what others battled. It is not a permanent perch — never was. Yet, men and women died hoping...
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