Grandma Bootcamp

Thirty-nine years ago, when we enlisted in the parenting corps, I went through mama bootcamp, and being on duty 24/7 those first few weeks, the lack of sleep erased most of those memories from my mind. So much so that my husband and I went through it again three more times over the course of […]

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Investment Advice That Worked For Us

When my husband and I started dating 44 years ago, I wouldn’t say that either of us was financially savvy. We were good with handling money but really knew nothing about investing. Of course, what 17-year-old and 18-year-old would?   That being said, when things started to get serious between us and we began speaking […]

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She’s Nice

“You’re so nice!” I’ve been the recipient of that compliment more times in my life than I can remember. While I treasure those words at this age, I wasn’t always so excited to hear what I considered to be a generic accolade when I was younger.   I can remember a distinct incident involving that […]

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The End of an Era

When my mom had emergency surgery in 2017 to repair a ruptured colon, I was hopeful that she’d recover easily enough, move back into her two-story house, and get on with her active retirement life. That wasn’t meant to be.   The long surgery brought about post-operative delirium and the end of her days of […]

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Welcome To This World

To say the last month or so has been busy would be an understatement. Five weeks ago, I had to relocate my mom to a new assisted living facility. Three days after she was settled in I flew to Columbus, Ohio, to help our daughter Samantha out by watching our 2-year-old granddaughter and working on […]

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Don’t Ever Bet Against Me

My 86-year-old mom has been in assisted living facilities since she underwent emergency surgery in 2017 for a ruptured colon that caused her to have short-term memory loss. After she was released from the hospital, she stayed at the closest nursing facility to our house, just .5 miles away, so that I could visit her […]

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Biking Reinvented

I can still remember the first time my husband brought up the topic of investing in an e-bike for me. He claimed that it would help me keep up with him on our longer bike rides. Being the competitive person that I am, I was actually offended that he was implying that I was struggling […]

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Our Walk to Remember…

  I’ve been a goal setter as long as I can remember, and I truly believe in the power of written goals. Many times through the years I’d written down goals, and, without even consciously working on them, in time they were reached.   Recently, I dug out a goal list from 2010. Out of […]

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