It’s not what you’re thinking. This is not a blog about football championships. This is about a bowl game that will get you to and through the holiday season and past the daylight-deprived days ahead. I’m talking about Advent Bowl.   Oh good, I love Advent Bowl!...

It’s that time of year again! The Age Meter turned over another annual notch on Monday. I am officially older than anything or anyone that is less than sixty-two years old.   Why do you keep doing that? You were fifty-nine when you reclaimed me. Yeah, and you...

The life of a writer is filled with many challenges. Every so often I am invited to give a presentation about writing. I joyfully tackle preparing for this type of event- -developing and rehearsing a script, designing handouts, etc.- -except for one requirement that...

Today I feel like a Holstein heifer. Why? Because this week I’m investigating the concept of branding. Social media branding, that is. What do you mean by branding? An excellent question, Lily (my inner 14-year-old is always on top of things), and one I’ve been asking...

As my dear friend the great and recently late Kathy Beck once told me, there’s an age at which your social life is comprised of driving friends to medical appointments and attending their funerals. Last week another dear friend passed beyond the veil, the highly...

How often do two nouns that start with the letters “gn” crop up in one’s life in the same week? I have had such a week, the first in nearly sixty-two years. I have come to possess both a garden gnome and a package of gnocchi.   We have gnats, too. But no gnus. So...