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Liking Growing Bolder ? No one could have told her Just how free she could feel Just like driving a kid’s big wheel First time on the site I was taken back Fun, Blogs and Attitude it did not lack So each day the site I would visit Everyday, I wouldn’t miss it Feel free, fly like a bird and most Certainly inspired by all the words Growing older’s all about...

Caregivers: About Visitors When someone hears that your loved one has a serious illness they ask if there is anything they can do. This of course is the right thing to say and some people say it for that precise reason. Others actually mean it and some will even expect an answer. I found while caretaking Margaret, my wife of 20+ years, who was unexpectedly diagnosed with Stage Four...

Frankly, I don’t care which came first, the chicken or the egg; I’m just damn glad that chickens shoot those ovals out at such a clip. You may think I’ve finally run out of things to blog about and saw an egg in the kitchen and just thought, ‘What the hell, I’ll write about eggs.’ You would be only half wrong. True, eggs may seem boring to some, but those of us who crave them...

I wouldn’t be young again if you paid me many thousands of dollars. Okay, if you offered me millions of dollars, I would indeed go back to my dentist and have him put the silver metal braces back on my teeth, but I would ask for a million per year (I had to wear them for four years!). I’ve heard that young’uns now-a-days have to wear them for about a week, and they can pick purple if they...

Forgive the baseball analogy in the title of this blog. I’m not a fan. It only seems apropos as I navigate through my “golden years." Some time ago I began to feel useless and forgotten after long years in showbiz, a career and marriage had ended. I was sort of “at loose ends” as we here in the hinterlands are fond of saying. Being rather “long in the tooth” (another...

In anticipation of hearing from you Mothers around the world who are fully appreciative and grateful beyond measure for all the children you have, indeed, you know something that we don’t. However, I am defending those of us who see you all in situations where you look like you’d give your child away to the nearest bystander as the child lays flat on the floor at Target pitching a...