Remember when turning 50, let alone 60 or 70 was unimaginable? My partner turned 75 last week, an event we celebrated by having a dinner party with 10 friends, four of whom are 80 and older, and guess what? We Continue reading Three-quarters of a century→

I have never made a real career plan. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a lawyer, but life intervened, and I didn’t get to law school till I was in my mid-30s. I graduated from law school Continue reading New year, new directions→

Tomorrow is Hogmanay, the custom-laden Scottish new year’s eve. While some of my genetic background is Scottish – it is said that the Flora MacDonald who smuggled Bonnie Prince Charlie out of Scotland in 1746 was a distant relative of Continue reading Goodbye 2022→

My youngest sister – 10 years my junior – and I, comparing notes some years ago after one of us had had a particularly challenging exchange with Bell Canada, realized that we both had developed what we labelled our “Bell Continue reading The Bell voice→