Month: July 2025
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What If…
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhat if we never lost our child-like wonder? What if we really knew our purpose? What if we are living in a computer simulation and nothing is real? What if we found out that most everything we believe to be true is really not? What if the world is destroyed by some… Read more
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The Power of Snail Mail
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe bought our house here in Florida from The Sand Dollar Home Team. We are invited to 2 fun social events a year, usually a wine and beer tasting and an ice cream social. They sent me a beautiful orchid in a gorgeous piece of hand and locally made pottery after my… Read more
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Vive ut Vivas!
Reading Time: 5 minutesI have no clue how or why I ran across the phrase Vive ut Vivas, yet here it is. And it’s my new motto. With the cancer and mastectomy behind me, I look forward to the rest of my life. Translated literally from Latin, it means live to live or live so… Read more
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Cleared for Splashdown
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday was a big day for me. The surgeon said I could immerse (swim, pool, beach) at 4 weeks post surgery–July 17. I’ve been waiting for this. Regular readers know that the water is my happy place! When I mentioned the upcoming momentous day last week to my besties at Girl’s… Read more
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These Bods Are Made For Walking
Reading Time: 6 minutesMy apologies to Nancy Sinatra. Scratching around for a blog post this week yielded nothing I could get excited enough to write about. Every topic I thought of was, as Yogi Berra famously said, “deja vu all over again.” I suppose that’s because I’m going through exactly what I went through just… Read more
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Frisson!
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI am willing to bet the farm that each and every one of us has experienced frisson. Very few know what it is though. Aren’t you glad you read this blog? You’re about to get a little education with which you can impress and amaze people, whether you know them or… Read more
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Look, Ma! No Bra!
Reading Time: 5 minutesI was born in 1954 so was an impressionable 14-year-old when, as a symbol of women’s liberation, a “bra burning” protest took place during the 1968 Miss America pageant in Atlantic City. There’s no evidence there were any bras actually burned, but women of all shapes, sizes, ethnicity, and (presumably) religions, did… Read more