The little boy greeted me as I waited for him outside the school door on a sunny afternoon last week. “You're old!” he said and skipped off through the crowded playground. It wasn’t the response I had been expecting to my chirpy, “Hey! How was your day?” and I initially took offense. Then I looked [...]
I went for a little jog yesterday and, though I broke no speed records and lingered a little too long at stoplights, I smiled the whole way. It had been a long, long time since I'd taken a run. Creaky knees sidelined me for a stretch that was starting to look permanent. Several years ago, [...]
I recently got to spend some time with two people who have immersed themselves in the wine culture. So, I’ve been sipping the good stuff, from grapes and in life. Father Gordon Gilsdorf described that analogy beautifully in this poem: On Being 50. Wines grow bitter with age or better. 50 is a vintage year, [...]
I’m starting to think you can mark the age of a woman by the size of the purse she carries. (Or, in my case, by the fact that she carries a purse at all). Back in my early days of motherhood, I disdained both purses and diaper bags. I just slid a couple of bucks [...]
Tom Lyons has developed an enthusiastic following as he zips around Neenah peddling a trishaw with two happy people out front. “I laughingly call them my customers,” he said. “I have kind of a clientele and I don’t want to disappoint them.” Tom has worked as a volunteer “pilot” for the Valley VNA Senior Services [...]