Scam tip savvy by Terry Ambrose The phone call. This afternoon, my phone rang from a number I didn’t recognize. I almost didn’t answer, but I had sent my doctor a request for a prescription refill, so I felt compelled to take the call. Cautious, I answered. A pleasant, male voice greeted me. “Hello, I’m calling […]
It’s World Bee Day By Cheryl Hollon In 2014, the Slovenian Beekeepers’ Association proposed the idea for World Bee Day. Instantly, a resolution was proposed to the United Nations for the project. All UN countries adopted it unanimously and 115 countries signed on as co-sponsors. The day was designed “to raise awareness of the importance […]
History, Mom, and Seafood By Maggie Toussaint Some days are more monumental than others. For instance, May 13 is the 133rd day of the calendar year. 232 days remain. How is that possible? This year is going by at record speed. If I blink my eyes it might suddenly be November! Looking at history, numerous […]
I’ll Never Leaf You! By Diane A.S. Stuckart Tomorrow is Arbor Day, celebrated annually on the fourth Friday of April here in the US. The holiday has its roots (pun intended!) in Nebraska, where the 19th century pioneers who first settled there lamented the territory’s lack of trees. According to the Arbor Day Foundation’s website, […]
Box Sets by Nancy J. Cohen It’s exciting to try something new. I love to read series. I’ll get hooked on the characters and their world and devour the stories, like I’m doing now with Lindsay Buroker’s Star Kingdom science fiction world. When I turn the last page in this eight-book series, I’ll be sad […]
The Taxing Art of Writing by Debra H. Goldstein In any year but this one, today would be Tax Day. In every city, there would be long lines of cars containing people who barely slept last night waiting to drop their tax returns at the post office. Normally impatient people would restrain themselves knowing that […]
National Library Week by Terry Ambrose Did you know that this is National Library Week? That’s right! Those places with thousands of books and magazines and computers and… I love libraries and my connection to them goes back many years. I got an early start with libraries because my mother was a librarian in her […]
Don’t Fool with my Sourdough By Cheryl Hollon It’s National Sourdough Day which is no April Fools’ Day joke with me. For my late father, it was a serious business. Dad made the holiday cloverleaf dinner rolls for Easter with his usual exacting focus. It was a production effort that rivaled the D-Day landing for […]
Color Me Happy By Maggie Toussaint Why wait until we’re eccentric to wear whatever we want? My best buds and I asked this question and decided we’d wear whatever colors/clothes/shoes we wanted. We’re all old enough to know better, of course, but our Mamas are gone so nobody is likely to snatch us up by […]
Can appliances get Covid-19? It’s a question I’ve been pondering for a year now. By Lois Winston A few months before the pandemic turned our world upside-down and inside-out, my stove died. In March of last year when the pandemic was getting really bad in New Jersey, my son was so worried that he suggested […]
