One of the things I'm grateful for is all the talented people that live in Tulsa. I've had the opportunity to see singers, musicians...

I feel like complaining today. I've read a lot of books about grief over the years and, of course, more of them lately. And then I'v...

Having decided not to join in the cultural race to look younger via various procedures, and therefore, won't be pretending to be 50, I h...

I can't help but wonder about this and it's another thing I see nothing about in the media. I know fast food is partly responsible f...

I'm on the other side of some of the worst of the grief, thank God. While I was in it I was so overwhelmed I couldn't put words to i...

I believe "crone" is the correct word for the stage of life I'm in. I'm certainly not a child. I'm not in my childbear...

This is about getting to be enough - so I'll do this one more and then quit for now and come back to it later. You Don't Love Me and...

On the other hand.... if they really are doing something that proves they couldn't possibly love you - what then? How do you know for su...

Maybe instead of jumping to the conclusion that they don't love us and they never did, we could just ask for what we want and mention th...

A long time ago when my dear friend, Brad, was still alive, I called him and he answered the phone in a terribly grumpy voice. I said that ...

When I was a kid one of the things I loved was my mother's habit of growing old-fashioned flowers in the summer. We had whole gardens of...

My outlook seems to be sliding right smack into the negative. Most of what I've written lately seems to either be rants about stuff I s...

Guess what! I read an article in Psychology Today that cites recent research regarding why men judge women on the basis of their looks (plus...

Okay, now I'm REALLY upset. Am I the only old person that remembers Brown vs. the Board of Education? I was a kid when the Supreme Cou...

Rebecca and I went to the zoo when it was raining off and on. A lot of the animals were asleep. A couple of male chimps were standing in t...

Some things I really miss: Having somebody I love incredibly much around every day to hug and kiss. I kissed Ron on the top of his head eve...

The best thing about being a woman is the built-in desire to love and nurture. I love that in myself and other women. Even though I'm ba...

Losing a loving partner is a bunch of losses - not just one. My dear friend Joanie told me after her husband died that when she was missing...

I guess it must just be terribly impractical or someone would have done it by now. But I would like to see someone try. Or at least talk abo...

I am so confused. It's one of those times when the true motives of the decision-makers in government are out of my realm of thinking. He...