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Hi Everybody, Autumn has finally arrived and no better way for us to greet this wonderful season...

As some of you know, I recently took a trip to Colorado with my daughter and my three grandchildren, and this trip was definitely different from previous ones we have taken together. Why? Because this time, I became the “dutiful daughter” – we switched roles, although it certainly wasn’t my idea, and I damned well didn’t like it. The trouble started as we drove to Atlanta – she decided...

In May of 2006, the almost-final PDF version of the book arrived from Sentient and we began going through it, page by page, making revisions and finding errors. I was surprised at how some of the rules of grammar had changed from what I had learned in school in the 1950s. Things that I called errors turned out to be correct today. Once the editing was done, off it went yet again. The...

Roz Savage is a British ocean rower, author, motivational speaker and environmental campaigner. After 11 years as a management consultant, she embarked on a new life of adventure by rowing 3,000 miles across the Atlantic. Her unlikely transformation from office worker to ocean rower, described with humor and soul-baring honesty in her blogs, captivated a worldwide audience. Roz is now...

With a sheer look of panic on my face, I realized I was slipping off the bar stool. I frantically grabbed the seat while, at the same time, trying to free my 3-inch heels from the middle rung so I wouldn’t fall face forward and possibly break both my kneecaps. I also silently cussed myself for wearing the dress I did – why did I have to wear the straight, slightly sexy, somewhat...

It has been just about a week since my new computer arrived. I have wanted this one since I first...

Reader’s note: Today would have been my Mom’s 98nd birthday. It seemed appropriate to publish this. As I said at the start of the entry about my Dad, I wrote the following less for others, though they may enjoy it, as I did for my own sake and for my son. Family is important.Mom was born some 50 miles from Budapest, Hungary in 1912 and was baptized Yolan. She was the first born of my...

In memory of Mom on this Mother’s Day. As I said at the start of the entry about my dad, I wrote the following less for others, though they may enjoy it, as I did for my own sake and for my son. Family is important. Mom was born some fifty miles from Budapest, Hungary in 1912 and was baptized Yolan. She was the first born of my maternal grandparents, Barbara and Joseph....