Life with an aging parent is a real treat, and mine is no exception. My mother turned 89 years old last October. Physically, although frail, she is in pretty good shape. She takes all kinds of medications, for osteoporosis, for high blood pressure, for heart problems. When my father died, in February of 2005, following a fall in the nursing ( Read more... )

When I checked my calendar program and discovered that the last traveling I had done was in early 2005, I was surprised. Now I’m not. Getting ready is time-consuming and exhausting ( Read more... )

On Tuesday, I went to a local medical lab to get blood drawn for a number of tests for my doctor, in preparation for my appointment with her today. And I survived that, despite multiple efforts, on the part of the technicians, to find my veins ( Read more... )

My Christmas present to myself arrived from China today. And, no, it's not so big as it appears.


( Read more... )

Well, pardon me. I may strain a few muscles, but I have to pat myself on the back ( Read more... )

I can’t believe it’s possible, but I just might get organized in 2008! I went to Office Depot to get the discs to transfer data from the laptop to the PC and, while I was there, I thought I’d just look at their printers. I had been looking at them online, at Circuit City and at Best Buy, and thought I knew what I wanted. Lo and behold! Not only ( Read more... )

Thank you for your encouragement, ladies. I may need help, from time to time, to navigate this "dead marsh," but, at least, I got my feet wet ( Read more... )

Upgrading a computer has always been a perilous task for me. Needing more memory, I got my "computer geeks" to transfer everything from my old 40 GB hard drive to the new, magic 320 GB hard drive. That included my calendar program and my address book, both of which are old MS DOS programs ( Read more... )