An Ethical Question That Needs to be Answered — AI-generated content is a complex subject with many tentacles. For this article I am going to narrowly focus on the ethics (Does anyone care about those anymore or are they as obsolete as rotary phones?) …

The Numer One Lesson to Carry into 2023 — I’m no different from anyone else in that I’ve had plenty of tragedies in my life. They taught me that life isn’t fair. In this article, I am going to demonstrate how to turn negative life experiences into positives by giving you three examples of people whose mindset was never…

A Life Behind the Wrinkles — Timeline: 1980’s They used to be somebody. That realization hit me like a lightning bolt, as I walked the corridors of the nursing home where my mother-in-law was recovering from surgery, and I saw the pictures on the bulletin boards outside the residents’ rooms. A wedding picture of a young, exuberantly smiling…

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. …

Crow’s Feet Writing Prompt #24 — Aging Surprises — Ever since I outgrew my little white toddler lace-ups, I have been obsessed with shoes. As a child of the 1950s, I desired patent leather Mary Jane’s in every color. Since money was limited, I was lucky to get one black pair every year, but I rejoiced in wearing them. …

A reverse rant — 3 cheers for Rooms to Go furniture store Since I write so much about customer service nightmares, I thought it only fair to write about not just a good customer service experience, but a spectacular one. In July 2022, I moved into a new villa (Moving is NOT For Old People). Since I had sold my furniture after my husband died and had been living in a furnished condo for 6 years, I needed a lot of furniture.

A Challenge for Readers — When I was working as a speech/language therapy assistant, I was always coming up with unique, fun therapy games to keep my students engaged and learning. My nephew introduced me to this game, which I thought would work wonders for helping children learn phonetic sounds. List as many cartoon characters…

Rude disregard for other writers’ hard work has to stop. Enough is enough! The articles I (Link Bombs Stink) and countless others have written on this topic seem to have been ignored by the perpetrators, so why am I torturing myself by writing about it again? Because I love writing…

Life Lessons You Can Learn From Our Ancestry Surprises — Julia Roberts and I may not be similar in beauty or leg length but damned if our lives haven’t recently collided in something other than beauty. After Julia’s news last week, we are certainly sharing surprise life experiences. If you haven’t heard her latest news — Through genealogy research and…