I have kept my "daily appointment" calendars since 1989! I'm not sure why. They take up valuable bookshelf space; still, I've been...

I must have been three maybe four when my mother took me to the McGregor Library for the first time. The smell of new books reminded me...

I don't remember most of the dream I had the other night. It was something about me having decided to expand my circle of friends--my...

For those of you who don't know me except through seventynme.com, I thought I'd attach a link to the YouTube reading that I along with...

Roundabout this time of year, I start obsessing about the change from summer to fall and then to you know what. I prefer not to utter the...

I needed a drink. Something "stiff." The Zoom event in which I'd been invited to read part of a personal essay about a psychic reader had...

I'm out of whack. Off-kilter. Keerflooey. Verklempt. It's as if I'm walking the tightrope between the two Twin Towers in New York with...

Is it normal? Do we lose our "pubes" as we age? I never thought I'd ask this question let alone write about it. It feels embarrassing...

My seventy-sixth birthday is a matter of days away. Another year in the books. I'd like to think that I'm one step closer to cronehood,...

I didn't have anything pressing on my schedule for the day so when a friend called to rave about "Lockdown University," a series of...

Malka from "Shitsel" In all the hours and hours that I spent creating a title for my book about teen suicide, "Dying On Purpose" was...

So, how's it going? Had your vaccinations? Now well beyond the two-week "be-safe" waiting period so that the vaccine is at its full...

Yesterday after repeating a final namaste in my yoga class via Zoom, opening my eyes, and adjusting to "reality," my teacher read what...

My name is Jane. I'm an addict. Okay, let's change that up a tad. Hello, my name is Jane. I watched "Family Feud" last week and then...

I can't fold a fitted sheet worth a damn. But I can ford a stream (Who Knew?), hike a narrow rim trail, and survive the insults of a...

I sat in our rented 2021 Kia waiting again for my husband to get the “shot.” He made me wait in a Tucson gallery parking lot while he...

I like it. It's catchy. Maybe the Dems are on to something. Maybe they won't miss the Lincoln Project--the brain trust behind the...

Before the mammographer conducted the annual squish-the-breast test, she asked me the perfunctory questions that we can all answer in our...

It's a cloudy, chilly day here in the Midwest. I step outside because Alexa says it's 48 degrees which, for this time of year, is...

A friend sent me a link to storied-stuff.com, a site where anyone can submit a short 250-word or less story about their most cherished...