Posted on June 5, 2013
I’ve noticed that many of the posts I write are about the past. I never wanted to be the kind of writer who dwelt in the past. I always thought of myself as someone who was forward-thinking, even futuristic in my outlook. Why is this happening to me? I don’t want to be thought of […]
Posted on May 22, 2013
I tend to be, and it often works against me when trying to accomplish a goal or task. If I start a diet plan and fail, having even just one potato chip, I say “well that’s that then” and give up. Instead of sticking with it and continuing on the journey, one small slip or […]
Posted on April 30, 2013
Remember when your mother told you to turn off the TV and go out and play? Aside from getting you out from under her feet, which she was really doing with making sure that you got daily physical activity.
Posted on April 5, 2013
I have a friend who’s a fanatical Red Sox fan and lover of baseball. Every year around this time he sends me an email with the subject header: “Pitchers and Catchers Report in One Week”. For me this email is as much a harbinger of spring as the sighting of a robin or the first […]
Posted on February 19, 2013
I don’t read the obituary column in our local paper, and I pay little attention to celebrity deaths. But I was very moved by the recent HNE blog by our new blogger Geezer about the death of his mother: I lost my mother the other day.. It was an excellent example of what a blog […]
Posted on February 12, 2013
While January 2013 is just a memory and you may have forgotten those New Years’ resolutions, February is still a great time to… Lose weight, start exercising, get out of debt, all of the above? This is a great time for new beginnings, and that can be as simple as making a list of goals […]
Posted on January 25, 2013
I lost my mother the other day. I don’t really know how I feel about it. My mom, Dorothy, was an active, independent woman, ahead of her time in many ways. In the mid-60s, she left the realm of full-time motherhood and started a career that lasted over 30 years. As an example, she skied […]
Posted on January 15, 2013
Much was made of the possible end of the world last December 21, 2012, at the purported end of the Mayan calendar. Though this prediction had been discredited several times over, that didn’t stop Hollywood from making a blockbuster movie out of it. Nor did it stop people from worrying about it. We’re all still […]
Posted on December 12, 2012
Nostalgia is considered one of the lesser emotions, like sentimentality, a cheap thrill, not a worthy feeling like love or a passionately intense one like jealously or envy. But lately I’ve been feeling nostalgic for the most passionate and intense period of my life—the Sixties! Is it too late for me to have a midlife […]
Posted on October 23, 2012
I grew up during the space age. Sputnik was launched on my birthday in 1957. I was eight years old. In 1969 I watched men walk on the moon. Often I think about my grandfather, who lived during a time when humanity went from horse-drawn carriages to outer space adventures.