A changing perspective on dating as you age — I have a mirror and I can count. I know that I am no tightly toned, smooth-skinned athletic 20-year-old beauty and I can count to 74 — the number of birthdays I have had. It is with this understanding, and with no offense meant to men my age and older…

The unexpected update to my article, “Dating an Older Man.” My story, “Dating an “Older Man” — A Whole Different Story When You’re No Longer 20 Years Old” seems to have hit a nerve. It has received more claps and comments than any story I have written in my eight…

The future has arrived and it’s a nightmare! — Banks are like everything else in the 21st century- unrecognizable from anything related to what we knew in the previous millennium. Today’s banks are mostly empty with very few tellers behind the long counters, as most banking is conducted online. There are empty desks where helpful agents used to sit…

Until the day he redeemed himself with a killer gift — Gift-giving wasn’t his strong suit. I fell in love with my husband at first sight when I was 10 years old, and have remained so seven years after his death. We had a close, loving relationship for 45 years, BUT, the man sucked at gift-giving. His idea of a gift…

They are Risking My Sanity After a rough start (Moving is NOT for Old People), things seemed to have settled down and I have been enjoying the work-free lifestyle of my Independent Living Community: · Bedroom window blind wouldn’t work –Call maintenance. He came that day to show me how to maneuver it. · Noticed…

The Airline Policy That Finally Snapped My Tolerance — This cranky old lady has been pushed over her limit. I have written stories complaining about 35-year-olds who don’t know what a pencil is, cashless banks, and dismal customer service that turns your hair grey and tolls your death knell before your call is answered, but WeOnlyWantYourMoney Airlines has completely…

The Follow-Up to My Pencil-Less Bank Story — I have returned with the promised follow-up story to The Pencil-Less Bank. Here is another true tale from your 20th Century Dinosaur, the woman who foolishly thinks there is money in…a bank. I am aware that all my banking could be accomplished online, including depositing a check that I was…

When Your Computer Dies, it Can Take Your Online Business With it. — If you owned a brick-and-mortar store and it burned to the ground overnight, you’d be screwed. S C R E W E D. Not very elegant language, but accurate. Out of business. Unless you had superior insurance and a massive savings account, you would be shell-shocked and broke. In the…

Conversing with a plastic disk — the new normal? — “I can’t call Ruth. I don’t have her telephone number. You need to put her number in my contact list for me to be able to call her,” admonished the voice coming from the little round plastic device on my nightstand. “NO, NO, NO,” I explained for the third time…