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I am pretty much stone cold deaf unless I’m wearing my hearing aids. In the mornings, before I put them in, Tom and I have some pretty funny conversations. Tom says “I’m going to the store. Is there anything you want on my list?” Me “My wrist? No, it’s really all right”. Tom “Did you say you want me to get Coors Lite? I thought you liked Corona.” Tom asks “Did you want coffee? I can make you some.” Me “Oh yes. You need to pick up Tums.” “Sorry?” my husband says. T

Dough-nut Under-estimate the Power of a Chocolate-covered Cruller My husband does the grocery shopping in our small twosome family. I get to make a list of things I want or need. The rule is, they have to be things he can find without asking the store clerks too many questions, because he’s one of those “fast shoppers”. Stuffed dates or Holland Rusks are out of the question. On top of that, he usually starts out the conversation before I have had my morning coffee

HEY TEACH! All of us are teachers, whether we know it or not. Whether we want to be or not. Whether we like it or not. We teach our kids, our dogs, our friends, we teach ourselves. You teach your kids how to brush their teeth, make their bed with tucked corners, do their laundry without everything turning pink and how to make French Toast. You teach the dog to sit, stay, come, lie down, roll over and play dead when you mention the name of your most-disliked politi

Just When Your Loose Ends are All Tied Up, Something Unravels Do you ever feel that you are stuck in the “three steps forward, two steps back” life pattern? Well, here I am, writing this a few days before my birthday. My 84 th birthday. Good Grief! How did I get to be 84? Wasn’t I just 42? Let’s see-42-That was 1982-the year we put the “gazebo-shaped kitchen/family room” addition on the old Victorian house and spent the Summer pulling nails out of the beautiful quarter-sawn