pinkytoe
Senior Member

A friend here was telling me about the beautiful islands off Portugal but said the flights now require multiple stops or changes. Thinking about a...

I've decided that leaving someone my ashes to deal with won't be happening. I have heard several accounts of ashes found in storage sheds or closets...

Condolences happy stuff. One of my only regrets in life was letting the medical establishment keep my mother alive in a vegetative state (at least I...

I am so sorry to hear this. She was one of my favorite long-time posters.

All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley. Deep thoughts of a museum guard at the Met Museum of Art about art, grief, people and other topics.

My university job email and cloud storage stayed with me when I retired along with its several thousand emails and files. Last winter, the...

This makes me think of Zuckerberg's Caesar style hairdo.

This sentence in the article is how I think about my possessions. If I look at the things I kept when my parents died, they really are about their...

My attachments are things that bring me comfort including morning coffee with 30-45 minutes of checking websites, daily fresh brewed iced tea with...

The Transcendent Brain by Alan Lightman. I like this little book as it is a scientist's exploration of why being agnostic makes sense to him.

Here is a fuzzy pic of the ring DH got from his father. It is gaudy to me as I don't often see ordinary men wearing diamonds but it was from the 80s...

DHs father left him a gaudy gold ring with three largish diamonds and it has been sitting in a box for years now. I suggested we have new wedding...