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Category: Aging in Abundance
My Quote to Live By
Yes, oddly I do have a quote that I try to live my life by and think of often. It is “Love is a place. Yes is a world.” This is inscribed on the inside of a little silver bracelet that I wear almost… Continue Reading “My Quote to Live By”
New Notification from Ancestry
Every few weeks, Ancestry tells me that there is a new match, a person somewhere, usually in Michigan, who is the son of the daughter who was second cousin to an aunt married a second time to her sister-in-law’s brother and I sometimes look… Continue Reading “New Notification from Ancestry”
Dear Starbucks Barista, Ten Years Later
Dontre Hamilton was killed by a Milwaukee Police Officer on April 30, 2014, in Red Arrow Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The park is in the center of downtown, across the street from City Hall. It was in the afternoon. A Starbucks employee called the Milwaukee… Continue Reading “Dear Starbucks Barista, Ten Years Later”
Goodbye to #15
My husband used his favorite flashlight to look in my mouth. I warned him that where the dentist extracted my upper left molar this afternoon might look bloody. And so, before clicking on his flashlight, he said, “What if I throw up?” He is… Continue Reading “Goodbye to #15”
Question to the WordPress Community
It is slightly unnerving to see that someone is reading all my posts since the beginning of my blog in 2010. There are over 3,000 posts. I appreciate new readers, for sure. But I’ve never had a new reader read all my old posts… Continue Reading “Question to the WordPress Community”
Bad Dirt: The Side Garden
I don’t have good dirt. I have bad dirt. And because I’ve done nothing about this terrible situation in almost forty years, the bad dirt has gotten an attitude. Now, it acts like cement might if it was poured around ancient irises and holly… Continue Reading “Bad Dirt: The Side Garden”
The Lifeline of Social Media
For years, I couldn’t communicate the way other people communicate. I couldn’t talk on the phone, and I couldn’t navigate most conversations outside of those with my husband and a very small group of other people whose voice pitch and tone were discernible by… Continue Reading “The Lifeline of Social Media”
Pink Eye and Other Pleasures of the Ages
The ramp up to age 76 has been kicking my ass. I’ve had a cold followed by days of a hacking, doubled over kind of cough, and then, yes, pink eye. And during this fun, we had our two-year-old granddaughter staying with us while… Continue Reading “Pink Eye and Other Pleasures of the Ages”
When I am 85
In ten years, I will pose nude for the first time,play tennis with Billie Jean King using my wood racket from high school,tattoo my left arm with roses and depictions of my victories, bits of poems written for me,I will paint the side of… Continue Reading “When I am 85”
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Listen to Jan read her essay “Billy” presented on WUWM’s Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “At the Breakfast Bar” on WUWM Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “The Parish Hall,” on WUWM Lake Effect
“Fury Cannot Touch Me,” Modern Love, NYT, 9/29/11
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