Terminally vain. That’s inspired by a phrase from the classic Eagles song Life in The Fast Lane: “He was brutally handsome, and she was terminally pretty.” I wrote a post years ago about my concerns surrounding blogging and vanity. And… Continue Reading
I didn’t prepare a new photo for Visible Monday today. I decided instead to tell a short story about a long recovery, and a happy ending. A few days ago I celebrated the one-year anniversary of breaking my right… Continue Reading
I wasn’t a huge Elvis fan while he was alive; I was just on the cusp of the shift to the Beatles, and Elvis got left behind for me. I remember with clarity the the day the King died,… Continue Reading
That song, The Power Of Love, by Huey Lewis and the News, was a huge hit in 1985, on the soundtrack to the movie Back To The Future. I was 30 years old and fascinated by the power of love, in… Continue Reading
Age is not just an issue of mind over matter (that is: if you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter). It’s a real life thing, just like puberty and menopause and (gulp) the inevitable for every living thing. We’re only moving… Continue Reading
Not just a medium-amount inspired, but all-out, I gotta DO/BE/TRY-this kind of inspired. Like the first time, if you love music, you heard Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, or looked out over the sea from an airplane, or (am I dating myself… Continue Reading
That phrase – “bucket list” – is getting a bit hackneyed. It’s OK if I use it again today? This time to mean, what wardrobe pieces, or hairstyles, or makeup hacks do you want to experience before, well, you know… Continue Reading
Our friends generally become fewer and farther away as we age. That delicious camaraderie we had in college and early working years has dissipated as our lives diverge. Some of us have big families now, some have small. Some have thrown… Continue Reading