At nineteen years of age, it was the trip of my lifetime. One of my very first travel adventures was in the early ’70s when I went across the country as a passenger on a motorcycle. My parents were probably terrified for me, but my boyfriend was a good driver, gasoline was $0.29 a gallon, […]
Article sponsored by VSP Individual Vision Plans If you’re like most Americans over 50, you plan to work after retirement in some capacity. You may even be considering changing the way you work and going into business for yourself. Where once that would have been considered a dream job and beyond the realm of […]
Billy and I spend a lot of time together. After being retired for almost three decades, we have worked out a nice rhythm of time apart and time working on joint projects and having fun. Here in Chapala, Mexico, Billy will sometimes go to a favorite cantina in the afternoons just a couple of blocks […]
“When we give, we get” was the motto of my birthday this year. The unpredictable event served as a perfect reminder of valuable life lessons. You all know the saying, “Man plans and God laughs.” Without a doubt, the last few days of my life involved give and take, organizing skills, a lot of frazzle […]
Dennis Prager, a well-known speaker and author, states that “gratitude is the key to happiness.” Today, I decided to reflect on the meaning of gratitude because of an email I received from a writer, a young woman who lives halfway around the world. After reading some of my stories, we Skyped. The next day I found […]