At an appointment yesterday with my primary care physician, I asked her about the pimples that keep popping out all along my chin. It is the worst acne of my life, my teenage skin a porcelain doll’s in comparison. As I suspected, the cause is the stage of life I…

I just donated quite a few business suits to a wonderful organization, Wings For Success. They are located in Frazer, Pennsylvania, and as stated on their website, they “provide more than work-appropriate clothes to courageous and economically disadvantaged women. They help outfit them with confidence.” One of the volunteers at…

I am not needle-adverse. Never have been. Shots, IVs, blood donation, blood drawn for lab testing — don’t phase me in the least. This served me well during the week I spent in a Philadelphia hospital after I woke up blind. Oh, let’s add spinal tap (or lumbar puncture, if…

A rainy, gray morning and a new issue of People magazine, called for a travel mug of coffee to accompany me back to bed after breakfast. I retrieved the The West Wing tv series tumbler from the kitchen cabinet, another relic from my corporate America days. It was given to me an infinite…

As many of us do, I reached for my phone this morning before my eyes were fully open and checked messages and then today’s To Do List. Following the usual working out and blogging tasks, I saw “Poop”. In my pre-coffee haze, it took me a minute to remember I…

Ladies, wash the body lotion off your hands before zipping on your riding boots. For that is a slippery slope.  

I love words, both writing and reading them. But even with the amount of time I spend doing those two things, the words inside my head are by far the most prevalent. That could be because I’m by myself a lot, but when I think back to when I was working,…

There are so many things we must do once in our life before our time on earth is through. My list includes swim with dolphins, travel to another country, see the Grand Canyon, skydive, drive across the U.S. Why isn’t “clean the bathroom” a one-time experience?  

I never had a sister who I shared clothes with. I have traded books and recipes with friends over the years and now I ask them to lend me their vision. My husband is color blind and so I must outsource this particular activity..I have gotten help organizing my clothes…