Collecting My Thoughts

My New Year's resolutions are usually for one month--then I'm on to something else--perhaps it will be poetry? I may try to do Fly L...

A strange old lady has moved into my house I have no idea who she is, where she came from, or how she got in. I certainly did not invite her...

Six years ago I wrote about the joy of new friends I'd made in the previous 15 years.  Since I didn't use surnames in the article, I...

AND THEN IT IS WINTER You know time has a way of moving quickly and catching you unaware of the passing years. It seems like yesterday tha...

Last night's 60 minutes (it's really 42 minutes) had an excellent report by Leslie Stahl on being over 90 years old. It challenged...

Let Obama take us over the Fiscal Cliff (he's out campaigning for tax increases right now) so people know what he's about. Of cour...

27 states had old age programs before the passage of the Social Security Act in 1935. They were known as OAA, Old Age Assistance. However, t...

That study hasn't been done, but there was one at the U of Michigan that seems to show American seniors are about 10 years better off th...

The good news Sandy always looks on the bright side and refuses to be scared by government stats asking for more money: after infancy, old a...

3652 Let's face it, Harry When I look at the pinched and angry face of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) I see in every line an...

Poetry Thursday #13 This week's challenge is ekphrasis , "a literary description of or commentary on a visual work of art." ...

3608 March 21 poetry selection from my daily book of poems has one I could not resist, but I've changed "Father William" to ...