I started writing my weekly “Back Porch Break” lifestyle column for the Gazette and the Pueblo Chieftain in the summer of 1995. Preparing to write about turning 70 recently, I began by looking back at past columns about growing older. I found three. The first was a column titled “Anti-Aging Devices,” written as I turned […]
Valuable Resources on Aging
November 17, 2015 By 3 Comments
Enhancing the lives of older adults and those who care for them. Dear friends, I honestly don’t expect to become rich and famous from these two books, but I know from feedback I’ve gotten from those who have used them that they meet definite needs. Therefore I’m trying to do everything I can to get […]
The End of the Journey…or the Beginning?
April 3, 2014 By 14 Comments
If a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, then the journey to having a book you’ve written appear on your doorstep should begin with the first word, right? Actually, with The Hope of Glory: A Devotional Guide for Older Adults, it began long before the first word was written. Back in […]
What I Learned from Two Old Women
May 21, 2012 By 3 Comments
Occasionally you read a book that stays with you long after you close the cover for the last time and place the book on the shelf (or delete it from your reader!). So it is with a small volume I read with my book group not too long ago, Two Old Women by Velma Wallis. […]
When the Roles Reverse
March 15, 2012 By 2 Comments
On one of my visits to Tennessee from Colorado to visit my mother at her assisted living facility, the two of us started down the hall to go to the dining room for dinner. Holding onto the railing that ran along one side of the wall with her right hand, Mom reached her left hand […]
My Mother’s Hands
March 15, 2012 By 4 Comments
I was blessed to be with my mother for two weeks before she passed away at 92, even though we lived thousands of miles apart. Sitting beside her bed I found myself drawn to her hands—wanting to touch them and hold them as long as I possibly could. These were the hands that cared for […]
