C or See Me

Have you ever felt invisible? I have. Not most times. In fact, I sometimes feel too visible. Most of my life I worried about how I looked, how I sounded, how I appeared to others. Now in my 70s, I worry less about what others think of me. I'm still me. I haven't changed. Well, except for looking older...

Compliments & Kindness

I thought about this incident last night before I fell asleep. On a recent cruise, a younger woman we met (maybe in her 40s) said this to me after meeting Stu and I and chatting a while. "I don't mean to be mean, but I thought you were his mother." Um, really?

Crosswords & Jigsaws

Growing up, I always envied my mother's skill at crossword puzzles. We got a daily newspaper from Boston (probably the Globe) and she did it every day. She also had the small paperbacks of crosswords and I soon started working them as well. I was a voracious reader by age ten and did pretty well at adult crosswords by age twelve. I haven't done many in the past years and I miss it.