Lies to Come in 2021
Although last night may have been a bit of a chuckle fest with jokes over text and on social media about how glad we all are that 2020 is...
Although last night may have been a bit of a chuckle fest with jokes over text and on social media about how glad we all are that 2020 is...
The year 2020 was stolen from us. It was stolen from little children and high school and college students who missed almost an entire...
I have seen a lot of psychosis in my career. Often alcohol or drug induced, sometimes strictly organic in nature, psychosis can be...
The new academic year has started and kids were thrilled to go back to school and college. Well, the ones who were allowed to go back to...
Fear is a powerful motivator. It keeps us from doing things we’ve always wanted to do, or should do, and it is used by evil people to...
One of the smartest things I did in 2008 was get rid of television. I wasn’t quite scrounging around in the couch cushions for milk money...
I come from a long line of contrary people. Law abiding, but contrary nonetheless. My mother’s people come from Ireland and immigrated to...
Mother’s Day came and went and Father’s Day is just around the corner. Many older adults didn’t and won’t get to spend them with their...
I would like to die, in my dotage and in my garden, or after swimming in the ocean or somewhere out and about and not strapped to a...
As much as the COVID-19 panic has taken over our lives in recent weeks, I really didn’t want to write about it. As a nurse and first...
I recently travelled to Schuyler, Virginia to visit the birthplace of Earl Hamner, Jr., the writer who created The Waltons. I was able to...
February is that wonderful month when the unmarried, the unattached are bombarded with lots and lots of advice on how to find someone,...
I recently started re-watching The Walton’s on Amazon Prime and reflecting on how much the series helped me cope with a pretty lonely and...