Published in Crow’s Feet·PinnedMember-onlyA Conventional Husband is Highly Overrated – So Who’s Complaining After 52 Years?Yes, it’s usually me — Yes, I know. I have much to be grateful for. I complain more than I ought. Just because my beloved dances around the house pumping his arms back and forth across his chest like some demented wind-up toy. Or gives away everything he gets. Or requests NO gifts for Christmas…Aging8 min readAging8 min read
Published in Crow’s Feet·PinnedMember-onlyWhat is the Meaning of Life? Am I Finally Ready to Give up on This Question?In my Seventies, I have different priorities — I don’t like that I haven’t figured out the meaning of life yet. I’ve already put a lot of work into this problem—how to understand life and suffering and why people have to die and what happens after death. Or what to do about any of it. I was a…Life Lessons5 min readLife Lessons5 min read
Published in Crow’s Feet·PinnedMember-onlyOctober at the Ripe Age of 72: Saying Goodbye With GraceA month of many transitions — I want to talk about October and all the transitions I’ve become aware of this month. Geographically, I am talking about October in Maine as that’s where my observations are made. Octobers are likely different in other places. Living on a farm in Maine is idyllic. Truthfully, I know I…Seniors6 min readSeniors6 min read
Published in Crow’s Feet·PinnedMember-onlyWhat Does a Seventyish Woman Who Has Been Married Fiftyish Years to a Man Who Adores Her Cooking Do When She’s Sick to Death of Cooking?When running away is not an option — I suppose I could don a disguise and run off to the nearest wine-bar and sip cocktails while my husband tried to find me to make dinner. But then I’d likely overdo it and end up being driven home by a well-meaning stranger who would need to be fed, too…Aging Well7 min readAging Well7 min read
Published in Crow’s Feet·PinnedMember-onlyHow A Seventyish Woman Stays Indoors for a Long Winter and Likes ItI also take advantage of every opportunity to go outside — I don’t know about the rest of the seventyish population, but I have been staying indoors a lot of the day, for a lot of the days and weeks and months this past year. It is especially noticeable in winter, as right now, for instance, I couldn’t go out without…Aging Well7 min readAging Well7 min read
Published in Crow’s Feet·Mar 8Member-onlyOur Mother Ate Two Fried Eggs for Breakfast Every DayA poem from “Not All Are Weeping” — In April, my first chapbook will be published by Main Street Rag Publishing Company. This is one of the poems in the book. I love to remember the stories about my mother, and writing poetry is one of the ways I can do it. Mildred Ethel Felsberg was my mother…Seniors4 min readSeniors4 min read
Published in Crow’s Feet·Mar 7Member-onlyA Movement-Based Lifestyle is Right Up My AlleyListen to the Crows Feet Podcast this week to learn about it — I have, at many times in my life, been involved in a formal exercise program. There was Jane Fonda and “feel the burn,” Denise Austin with her healthy lifestyle mantra, and Richard Simmons and his cute hair and mannerisms. I exercised with all of them at one time or another…Podcast3 min readPodcast3 min read
Mar 2Member-only“Bright Fruit” Published This WeekIn a little online journal called The Ravens Perch I wrote this poem during the pandemic, after weeks of not going into grocery stores, isolating myself within the confines of my house. It is about the almost too-muchness of the experience of grocery shopping after a few months. The colors…Pandemic2 min readPandemic2 min read
Published in Crow’s Feet·Mar 2Member-onlyA Grandmother’s Cabbage Soup Starts with Vegetable ScrapsApparently, the internet wants more content from grandmothers — One of my granddaughters remarked she had been reading recently that the internet needs more content from grandmothers. She heard this comment regarding Tiktok but felt it generally applied to the internet. She said that people in her generation would benefit from mature, grounded, wholesome grandmother — wisdom. Especially grandmothers’…Grandmother5 min readGrandmother5 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·Feb 13Member-onlyRemembering My Mother in PoetryI am thrilled that Main Street Rag Publishing Company has chosen to publish my first poetry book. Called Not All Are Weeping, the small book contains a number of poems about my experience of my mother’s death, along with many other topics. …Poetry3 min readPoetry3 min read