1976. America celebrated its two hundredth birthday midway through the year. My husband and I married in September. Rocky, a low-budget film about a Philadelphia small-time boxer who gets a rare chance to fight heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, was released (against all box office odds) on November 21. 2016. Forty years later. While America was […]

A soldier, a scientist, and an RN walked into a bar. They each had a piece of the whole. So did the welder ordering a root beer and the secretary nursing a diet Pepsi. Did you know that at any given time, that’s all any of us really have? A ‘piece of the whole’? Of […]

 If you’ve ever had a major operation you know there is an increase in pain a few days post-surgery. The anesthesia that was delivered into your system, so that what needed to be cut into and explored, repaired, removed or realigned could be, has worn off. A couple days later, the undeniable realization that your insides […]

Today the sun was shining with unseasonably nice temps for a third of the way through November. Since I live on the west coast of the United States at this writing, Mr. O and Mr. T have already shaken hands and ‘struck the pose’ for the White House press and paparazzi. After which they presumably […]

It is the ninth of November. A day after what is now termed as a most ‘historic night in U.S. history’. Our new President-Elect Donald Trump is set to become sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. In the words of Charles Dickens, “It was the best of times, it was the […]