I’ve done it again. Every so often I grocery shop like I’m still working. When I first retired I loved the previously-not-available option of doing my grocery shopping on a Monday or Tuesday morning. That’s when the stores were nearly empty and I could manoeuvre my cart without constantly bumping into other people. If I found I was missing something or short an ingredient for…
With the abundance of technology available today, how is it possible that no one has managed yet to invent a speaker system for fast-food drive-thru restaurants that can actually transmit understandable dialogue? McDonald’s. Harvey’s. Taco Bell. Tim Horton’s. They’re all the same. Just today, I had to ask the server at Taco Bell to repeat herself three times before I understood that she was asking…
In case you haven’t heard, Elon Musk—who incidently is the father of eleven children so far by various women—has set up a special residential compound for his extended family somewhere in Texas. He’s a strong advocate for having more babies to keep growing our population and he is not alone in his thinking. Why all the fuss about shrinking populations? It strikes me as a…
“When a clown moves into the palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” Ancient Turkish Proverb Even though I no longer watch the nightly news on television (my cortisol levels can’t take the stress) the news of Trump’s re-election managed to seep through and like many other democracy-loving boomers, I have been worried about the fallout. I usually refrain from political…
After a long, stress-free day of being retired, I like to further unwind before bedtime by watching something light, entertaining, and preferably funny on television. I avoid the news as much as possible as it only raises my blood pressure and cortisol levels. Streaming has made this so much easier as I no longer have to rely on network reruns of Everybody Loves Raymond or…
When I opened the weekend newspaper and found an entire supplement devoted to perimenopause and menopause—as if it had just been discovered by Gen-X and never before discussed—I thought it was time to re-post an earlier blog I wrote on the subject. Boomer women were loud and clear on the symptoms and implications of perimenopause and menopause on our personal and professional lives. However, as…
