Thursday, August 28, 2025

Summer Swan Song

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  Prime Time August, 2025 Retirement Sparks Summer Swan Song   As we roll around the corner into and out of August...
Friday, July 11, 2025

Clever Put Downs for Braggarts

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 July Retirement Sparks Certain put downs are great to use against those who are known to be braggarts. Two of my favori...

Life Hacks for Senior Women

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June Retirement Sparks  The older I get, the more I appreciate the hacks that make my daily life easier. I’ve started col...

Random Musings

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 May Retirement Sparks Some of you may remember the sketch Deep Thoughts with Jack Handey on Saturday Night Live. That ...

Forget About Your BMI

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April 2025 Retirement Sparks  We’re used to hearing the medical community talk about our BMI (Body Mass Index) as a way t...
Thursday, March 6, 2025

Save the Penny--Again

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  Here we go again. Periodically we hear proposals to get rid of the penny. There was a major effort in 2014 and I wrote ...
Saturday, March 1, 2025

February—The Month of Love

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February's blog post is only one day late. Much better than I did with January!  Ah, February! The month of great lov...

Banned Words and Phrases 2025

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This is a very belated posting of my 2025 list.  It’s time for the banned words and phrases for 2025. The popular list fr...
Saturday, December 14, 2024

Christmas Trees Over the Years

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  A decade ago I wrote an essay about un-trimming my Christmas tree. Back then I had a live tree and themed party where m...

On Being Bald

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November blog delayed   On Being Bald At the same time that COVID first broke out, I was diagnosed with lung cance...