Senior citizen? Aged? In their elderhood? Golden Ager? Old? Elderly? Baby-boommers are getting older. Do we need a new term to describe them?

I am always inspired by the stories my memoir writers read out loud about their past, but sometimes, I’m equally inspired by a story one of them tells me about what’s going on in their present life. Take Wanda. She has had a significant hearing loss since childhood and sits right next to me during […]

Beth mentioned last week that we would be heading on Sunday to the Lagunitas Beer Circus to meet up with her nephew Brian. Well, we did. We have photographic evidence, supplied here. Brian was a duly proud host and he took pains to take care of us, even though he was working. It was a […]

What do you wear to a beer circus?

I’ve come down with spring fever. OK, given that it was 80+ degrees yesterday, muggy, and that we seem to be skipping the spring thing altogether so far here in Chicago, spring fever might be a stretch. But I’ve got the symptoms: Day dreaming, distracted, don’t much want to focus on anything. So today’s MwM […]