Archive for June, 2011

June 20

A Short History of Underwear

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Maybe the biggest blessing (or the biggest curse) about retirement is that you have great gobs of time to think, time when nothing and no one presses you to be somewhere else doing something else. I recently had such a time-gob and I thought about underwear. I don’t actually remember wearing diapers, but I know […]

June 15

Gross For The Girls

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I’m sure you’ve heard all the talk about the two Hangover movies, right? As far as I can tell they appeal mightily to the males of our species, or at least to those of a certain age (or maturity level?) I haven’t heard that they have the same draw for females of any age (or […]

June 14

Dear Dell, Where Are You?

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Since we didn’t have any patriotic plans for the Memorial Day weekend, we decided to do the truly American thing. You know, SPEND A LOT OF MONEY as a kindness to the economy. It took no time at all to realize that we were each very deserving of a BRAND-NEW COMPUTER. (I’m using all-caps to […]

June 13

Fragility

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I’ve written about my friend Mary before. You might remember that we’re phone pals because she loves our competition over the Scrabble words in the daily paper. Mary’s a crackerjack, that she is. In her eighties, almost blind, living alone, and carrying on a social life that could daunt most anyone. She plays bridge at […]

June 12

Hello Blog, I’ve Missed You

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It’s been many (14) months since I promised to go away forever, but I guess forever is only as long as you want it to be, ’cause, I’M BACK! Did I learn anything while I was gone? I think so. I learned that too much personal truth can cause wide fissures in family relationships. It […]