Busy Vees

Busy Vees

My husband and I enjoy meeting people. I’ve often been called a social butterfly, and he’s one, too. In proper male terms, of course. Honest interest in others is infectious; it gains us many acquaintances and friends. In any conversation’s opening...
Encore Career

Encore Career

Writing is my ‘encore career’, a phrase I discovered today on a Baby Boomer ‘life transitions’ site. Applause, please, from the audience!!!! I’ve written thousands of clinical reports…and some of them contained fabulous fiction,...
Living Life as a Miracle: Career Choice

Living Life as a Miracle: Career Choice

While folks often say, “Life can spin on a  I’m writing about an important life episode initiated by a ‘spin on a heel’: mine. As we walked across the church parking lot, my husband and I spied our friend, and former pastor, walking with his...
Good-bye

Good-bye

I said good-bye to thousands of people in the past several days, and then threw them in the trash. Details of restoration and recovery of skills, details of loss and re-birth, notes of triumphs and tears – documented in manila files.      I finger-traced all the...