Less is More?

Are you familiar with Tom Margenau?  He has written the “Social Security and You " column for national syndication since 1997. His column appears in the Sunday edition of the Arizona Daily Star.  I discovered the column several years ago…

Goals and Values

I went to an interesting wellness program last week.  I enjoyed the two young ladies presenting the program, both were Registered Dietitians  and work at Tucson Medical Center, promoting wellness for employees. Call me silly, but when I…

Sweep Into Spring

Spring here in the desert means wild flowers everywhere,  they blanket the desert and also pop up in the yard.  Poppies are happy flowers and penstemons are delightful but at the first heat of summer they all shrivel up and look, for all the…

Get Me Outta Here

Monty had carpal tunnel surgery this week. Dr. Siegel is a magician who can  do the surgery with just two tiny incisions and a half dozen  stitches.  The procedure took about twenty minutes, although the prep and anxious waiting was a couple…

Take a minute . . .

When did companies become obsessed with surveys? I have to admit at first it was exciting to think someone actually wanted to know what I thought.  That was about 10,000 surveys ago.   On a scale of 1 to 10, one being least satisfied, and…

Memory Trick

  I’ve enjoyed the Reader’s Digest monthly magazine since I was a kid. Magazines were a big deal when I was growing up.  Mom subscribed to several of the ‘ladies’ magazines and we always had a copy of the Reader’s Digest laying…

Extreme Makeover

  When we brought Daisy home she was a cute ball of fluff.  She has grown from six pounds of fluff to thirty pounds  and she is still fluffy. She has endearing curls on her face, but short of using hair gel they won’t stay out of…

Daisy and the 'fixin'

  The Elizabethan collar is a device created by the same guy who invented underwire bras and corsets.  The cone shape collar is perfect for  picking up signals from outer space. Comfort is not part of the deal. Do you remember Biff…

Snow Day

  Snow in the dessert isn’t unheard of, but when is snows ALL morning, that is news worthy.  The snow was beautiful and the quiet was deafening.  We sat in the cozy house and watched the snow fall and answered the phone a lot. …

Happy Birthday Mom

Memories of my mom speak to me in February, her birthday month.  She passed away  in 1992 at the age of 84.  Still, when something happens, significant or mundane, often my first thought is what will I  tell mom.  Some times I can see her…