Four more days left in 2025, and I am ready to see it go. I’m poised to start 2026 with letting go of things that challenge my sanity, happiness and peace of mind. With that said, I have no idea really how to go about it. As many of my retired friends tell me, it is important to have a ...

There are some people who give the rest of us a bad rap. You know the ones I am talking about. They have had their Christmas and Hanukkah shopping finished since October. Their gift selections have been neatly wrapped and labeled. If they actually wrap gifts, they don’t have to use half a ...

Those of us of a certain age will remember how people often referred to one another as “man.” It was a silly term for just about anyone in your life or in authority. The police were “the man.” We threw the word “man” around in every conversation. I.E. : “Man, you’re looking ...

It’s beginning to look a lot like — winter. Standing at the kitchen window as I mindlessly wash my favorite flower-painted mixing bowl that I refuse to put in the dishwasher, I can’t help but notice that the trees are empty now. While they are void of color and leaves, they still hold ...

I am no Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but standing in the cereal aisle of a local grocery store, I began to think about some of the things he is trying to change in the daily eating habits of Americans. Besides taking the food dyes out of our food, he also is pushing for less sugar in our food ...

There was something about that hot chocolate. I don’t know whether it was because my hands were cold despite the heavy mittens my aunt had crocheted or the sweet smell of that cocoa powder. To this day, I don’t know if that hot chocolate was made with water or powdered milk. I just knew ...