pinkytoe
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Sounds like fun!!

Wow, you are experiencing homesickness/nostalgia early on. I still pine for my old house but not as much as a year ago. I think "moving gets harder...

The older I get, the more I like plants and trees of all shapes and sizes. We have two large spruces side by side and one is leaning precariously...

So true that once you are elderly and beyond being in control of health situations, the system will suck you in. Watching it play out with my MIL...

I think that's why I sought out a university (state) job early on. Normal hours, holidays, weekends, benefits. I can thank my twenty years there for...

I wholeheartedly concur with Ehrenreich's viewpoint. I have an appt for a physical in a month even though I don't have any issues. Just seemed like a...

In defense of a little bit of sugar now and then - I think the proof is out that diet sodas are not a good alternative. Not good for your brain or...

Hmm...probably around 2007 too. We were still firmly ensconced in our life in Austin before everything became fancy and gentrified. Good neighbors,...

If securing the borders helps with drug trafficking, than I am all for it. Unfortunately, I think it's kind of a joke as that cat has been out of the...

Seems to me that this is already close to how things are becoming. I certainly don't remember scads of homeless people camped out under bridges and...

We just have a Roku, Netflix ($8 a mo.) and cheap antenna for local news stations. Our wi-fi internet is $45 a mo. Had Amazon Prime but canceled that...

Jeans are a conundrum for me. My favorite Levi's are no longer made and I don't do skinny pants. I find the current trend of leggings all the time on...

Achtung Baby! Yet another book on child-rearing practices in other places and how they compare to America.

I have been taking some drawing classes and also use colored pencils trying to reawaken the artist within from long ago. I recently did a...

In the 60s my mother was a newly divorced single woman with a pharmacy degree. As a working mom pharmacist, she was a pariah in a sea of SAHM's and...

I only had one blazer - a black one and it went head first in the give away pile.

Retirement definitely requires less clothing. The irony is that for the first time in my life, the bedroom has a large walk-in closet.

Me too. We have some sort of wood laminate Pergo type stuff in the basement and I hate it. It clicks when you walk on it and seems to have a static...

Both DH and I have had vivid, nightly dreams since retiring. Perhaps because we can sleep so much more. Every morning, we both comment that we have...

My wildest dream would be to live in a peaceful civilization where people created beauty and cherished the natural world. An old hippie dream I...

It might not be easy to find but hibiscus is known to lower blood pressure. Whole Foods or Natural Grocers carries in the bulk section. Steeped like...

I am not actually in the Rockies but near. I can see Pike's Peak covered with snow from my kitchen window today. It is beyond gorgeous and takes my...

I guess for now these thoughts are telling me that I am neither here nor there. Going back in a few weeks so we'll see...

Seems like our culture pushes older women towards short hairstyles as most appropriate. I don't like really short hair on me. Had a pixie cut once...

I can't stand gyms. Nevertheless, I signed up for the Silver Sneakers program (free) at a local gym when I first retired. Everyone was much older and...

Yeah, it's not politically correct these days to admit to not being a dog lover. My pet peeve is people who let their dogs off leash in parks. Or...

Seems like a lot of people these days are renting rooms within a single family house.

I think a healthy-looking, fit male with grey hair (and maybe some trimmed facial hair) is quite attractive. Weird me - I like to observe people in...