This month’s blog is written by my granddaughter Emma about her mother (my daughter Isabelle). Isabelle and Emma My mother died of breast cancer when I was 13. I’m 17 now.  I miss her every day. She never told me she had cancer.  She wanted to protect me. I knew she had Multiple Sclerosis and […]

Has your husband–or significant other–ever asked you what your secret fantasy was? We all know what most men fantasize about so let’s just skip the details and go to the generalities. Men fantasize about the sex they used to have before they got married. Men fantasize about the sex they always wanted to have. Men […]

I’m thinking of running for President. Why not. Everybody else is. Presidents used to be Presidential. At least we thought they were before TV, cable, and The National Enquirer. I’m over 35 and born in the USA so I qualify. You don’t need experience. You can even be a crook. The first 10 years of […]

I was so happy when my children were young. Apparently they weren’t. Looking through an old photo album with my daughters… Daughter 1: Me: “Wasn’t that a wonderful summer at Brook Lake Camp? You got to ride a horse.” She: “Yeah, sure, that was the summer I also got lice!” Daughter 2: Me: “Look how […]

Since the news section of the New York Times is usually so depressing, I usually go straight to the obituaries.  The obits tell some facts—the when, the where, and the how. What I want to know is the real stuff–did the recently departed cheat on their mate, who are they leaving their money to and how […]

You’re just a button click away–and I’d love to hear from you. About your world, your family, your joys and frustrations, growing up, growing older, even recipes– even though I stopped cooking–by request–years ago. Goodbye until next time… Hope your day turns out as well as I hope(but doubt) mine will, Gingy (Ilene)

When did eating three meals a day become grazing all day? What happened to breakfast, lunch, and dinner? Driving to dinner from New Jersey to Chinatown, (we hit Chinatown once a week or once a day) my husband or I will say “Maybe we should stop and get a little snack so we won’t be […]

  Request… Look in a mirror at just your face. Either first thing when you wake up—or if you’re like me, you can wait until after you recreate your face with an assortment of overpriced stuff. I can’t look in the mirror before I put make-up on. It’s too scary. I use: Black Maybelline washable […]

My husband loves me. Well, maybe not with the same kind of passion as when our story began. Love changes over the years, the way people do. Nevertheless, we’re both thankful we’re together. But it’s not unusual after 30 or 40 years of domestic “bliss” to think about other possibilities once in a while. Come […]