This is one of those stories that won’t come easy. It’s genuinely one where I’ll have to “sit down and open a vein.” It’s very personal, and maybe I should not speak publicly about it, but I need to, and since I’ve gotten older, I have no desire to hide…

Thoughts about our grandson. For reasons I don’t want to go into here, my husband and I found out early in 2013 that we would have to take over the raising of our oldest grandson. There was no choice except to let him go into foster care. …

I want to live in Florida, at least most of the time. But I want to be with my kids, too, and no way can they afford living here. — Ok, here I go, probably inappropriately spilling all the beans about my family and me because I have no one to talk to besides you guys. …

Before one can make money writing on Medium, one must write. I’ve been a louse this month, and my Medium earnings show it. We’re in Florida, and I’ve been working on our little winter house down here and going to the beach, out to eat, out to shop, etc. Anything but write. And my writing income shows it. I’ve gone from…

We women are no longer free to control our bodies. It is but a short step from removing freedom over our bodies to removing all our freedom. We are no longer a progressive country. We are an uncivilized and backward society that has now allowed a politically partial quasi-supreme court…

If Attorney General Merrick Garland can’t or won’t do his job, Biden needs to get rid of him and appoint someone who will. If the attorney general of the United States can’t stop a seditious clear and present danger like Trump, what can he do? What good is he? …

I think we’d be better off, what do you think? — First off, make no mistake. I’m not talking about the crones that are defined by one dictionary as “ugly old ladies, usually skinny and wrinkled.” I’m talking about crones by their real definition, as a fountain of wisdom and frequently revered by some sects of ancient people. I like this…

We’re working down here. — We’re back in Florida in our tiny home away from home, which happens to be a manufactured home, as they call it. I call it a trailer. But it’s a pretty nice one with a vast carport down one side, a large lanai (what a screened patio is called in…

If you aren’t at least a millionaire, good luck. — I have been perfectly reasonable (especially since my husband wouldn’t give me the dang phone) to the people who work at our bank in the loan department. But this is just another example of the rich and their banks treating common people poorly. I notice a troubling trend of banks…