First posted September 2, 2014. Racism Revisited – Alive and Well I was recently asked by one of “my kids,” a sixteen-year-old high school student in Germany who had to do a term paper on Martin Luther King, to share my experience of that time with her. This is how I responded to her questions. I thought you might find it interesting. Dear Annika – I am on a plane taking off from Las Vegas. We have been out here meeting with a friend of mine whose cancer has returned and we a

First posted August 29, 2014. Women of a Certain Age I am of the decided opinion that women over eighty should be absolved of the...

First posted June 2, 2014. I promised to write more on this topic. Here it is. Last year, in honor of his 50th birthday and my 80th, Pete, my manager, and I were gifted with a seven-week boat trip on a Cunard ship. It went from Fort Lauderdale to Barbados (an island very dear to me), down the east coast of South America, around Cape Horn, up the west coast of South America, cruising by Rapa Nui (Easter Island), stopping at several ports-of-call in the South Pacific and endin