Suprise Me

No matter how many times I’ve seen it, if I happen upon it while channel surfing, I get sucked into it again. Tight writing and directing that doesn’t miss a beat, top-notch actors with believable chemistry, an evocative sense of time and place, great cinematography, and unforgettable music…such movies often define an entire genre. For… Read More

Perfection in a purse is an elusive pursuit I am afraid I will never achieve. For now, I have taken a vow. No new purses. Read More

Another friend had a bumper sticker—“Live simply that others may simply live”—that still seems like good advice. Read More

A story about a boy, his grandmother, and a boat. Read More

I believe they loved each other, but that's never enough. Not for an entire life together. Read More

Our first nest was rather humble. We really couldn’t afford to do much feathering of this nest. Read More

I started writing for MyRetrospect in July of 2018, so I’m a relative newbie. John Zussman found a post I had written on another site and asked if he could use it. Then he asked if I wanted to write for Retrospect. I loved the format and, as a woman looking at her 70th birthday… Read More

"My latest attempt to post a comment the normal way yielded a new error message" Read More

It’s pretty much impossible to pick just one song so I’ve zeroed in on the very first song that moved me: All I Have To Do is Dream by the Everly Brothers. When the song was released in 1958, I was 11 years old. I wouldn’t have the pleasure of my first kiss for another… Read More

I told them I was only eight, but I promised the announcers that when I was older I would drink Stroh’s beer and use Speedway 79 gasoline. Read More