Category Archives: personal reflections

High school reunions

Posted on May 17, 2013 by stillalife

There’s nothing like a high school reunion to take you back to the past, and in my case, way back. I’ve been to two of my reunions and figured those would be enough to satisfy me for the rest of … Continue reading →

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What did your mother give you?

Posted on May 12, 2013 by stillalife

What did your mother give you? Inspired by Mother’s Day and the publication of a new book, What My Mother Gave Me, Thirty-One Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most,” I spent time today reflecting on how I’d respond if … Continue reading →

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Worry lists

Posted on May 9, 2013 by stillalife

The iconic Mad Magazine cover character, Alfred E. Newman, says, “What me worry?”even though he looks like he should. Unlike Newman, I don’t look like I should worry, but I do. I worry and I like making and reading lists.  But I … Continue reading →

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Parable of the Chinese pot

Posted on April 25, 2013 by stillalife

Thanks to college students willing to undergo a variety of tests and challenges, (without knowing the real purpose), for the price of a pitcher of beer, researchers have collected volumes of data  about human behavior. I don’t remember why I … Continue reading →

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Japanese cultural immersion

Posted on April 23, 2013 by stillalife

The past few days I’ve been immersed in Japanese culture without leaving home. On Friday, Mexican and Spanish friends and I made sushi for a birthday celebration. (Birthday girl is absent, busy taking the photo.)  We couldn’t rise to the … Continue reading →

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Why some of us are susceptible to scams

Posted on April 16, 2013 by stillalife

Can you read people’s faces well enough to know whom to trust?  New research says that the older we get, many of us can’t. When my mother was about eighty, she called to say, “You won’t have to worry about me … Continue reading →

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Technology snails

Posted on April 9, 2013 by stillalife

We can all agree that seniors normally are not early adopters of technology.  Teenagers take the lead. Sometimes the rest of us take longer to jump on board. Travel back in time to Japan, the year 2000. Three of us, two social … Continue reading →

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Our brains on exercise

Posted on February 27, 2013 by stillalife

In the course of getting physical therapy for a hamstring strain, I learned that my hamstrings and quadriceps (muscles in the upper leg) were weak. Hard to believe since I had started to ski again and was walking regularly. Well, maybe … Continue reading →

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Birth and other perils

Posted on February 20, 2013 by stillalife

What if I had never been born, never had an opportunity to experience human life?  An odd question, but one that comes to me when I reflect on the day that my mother handed me an envelope containing an eight-by-ten … Continue reading →

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Choosing your own re-gift

Posted on February 13, 2013 by stillalife

What do you buy when the birthday honoree asks for gifts that cost less than $5?  This sounds like a requirement of the annual Christmas gag gift party we go to, except that as well as being cheap, that gift … Continue reading →

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