I’m lucky, but I am really not as lucky as some. For instance, despite the fact that I did have a career, I rarely ever got hired for any job I actually applied for. It is a trend that has followed me throughout my life and I have no explanation for it other than one … Continue reading TWIST OF FATE
DOR – I am too young to retire according to a new NYTIMES article. WHAT???!!! Our society wants us to work until we drop dead. Yeah? No? DAR – When my late husband, Michael, retired in his early 60’s so many people were aghast and asked him what he was ever going to do to … Continue reading READY TO RETIRE? Depends on what sex you are.
AKA PRICEY…. DOR – Dar, explain to me this phenomenon known as “quiet luxury.” I saw a TIK TOK video – of all people – the actor, George Hamilton explaining how his Loro Piano blazer sits silently on his fake-but fabulously-tanned frame, barely whispering it cost a fortune. What’s driving that, do you think? LOUD … Continue reading Quiet Luxury
If we all looked as magnificent as model Carmen Dell’Orefice, we would all go gray. But there is a huge part of me that thinks that she is an anomaly and that going gray is a little bit like giving up. Or, at least, giving in. For the life of me I cannot remember the … Continue reading Going Gray Or Giving Up?
Age is so much more than a number. I was suddenly awakened to that concept just the other day when for the first time – now that I am in my 60’s – I calmly recognized that I had already lived many more years than I had left. Which is to say, I am getting … Continue reading Act Old Later
Just as ‘long covid’ symptoms still exist for some medical patients who developed the virus, so does the bad behavior that seemed to erupt during those first long months of deprivation and isolation. The pandemic revealed the underbelly of societal selfishness which was always hovering just below the surface of our world and has now … Continue reading INCIVILITY RULES
Burning Daylight 