Got a call to arms from Chuck Schumer Today

. . . all the pols think we're stupid I must have done something awful . . . Photo by Milada Vigerova on Unsplash       I got a […]

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Pandemic Reading List on Nursing Homes

Article and Link Part of WORDS post - or - Comment Seniors and staff caught in the middle of nursing homes' quest for profit July 30,2020 Aging in the Coronavirus […]

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Aging in the Coronavirus Plague Year – part 5

. . . my "wellness" experience in a Senior Care Center and how I came out ahead The Bethsaida Pool in Jerusalem The experience I had as a rehab patient […]

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Aging in the Coronavirus Plague Year – part 4

Photo by Serkan Göktay from Pexels The Guardian/us online is my regular mainstream news source.  Yesterday and today they published two stories that anyone who is old , not suffering […]

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Aging in the Coronavirus Plague Year – Part 3

Photo by Cristian Newman at UpSplash Although the arthritis in this woman's hands is severe, if she were in a nursing home she would be placed among the general population, […]

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Aging in the Coronavirus Plague Year – Part 2

And now we begin the next case study:  my  mother-in-law -

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Aging in the Coronavirus Plague Year – Part 1

If you have any compassion at all, then the repeated news, during this modern Plague-Year, of the deadly corona virus sweeping through one nursing home after another has horrified you, […]

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Finding Meaning for Today in a Peter, Paul, and Mary song from the 60s

. . . Five Hundred Miles Photo by Mark Chaves on Unsplash If you miss the train I'm on You will know that I am gone You can hear the […]

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The Wizard of Oz as a Horror Story

. . . you don't always know that a story will be a horror Photo by Iman Soleimany Zadeh on Unsplash My mother took me to see the Wizard of […]

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Laurel and Hardy in Credit Card Land

source: Pixabay She’s actually in a room full of other customer seervice agents all talking at the same time. I have had a crazy day from finding out that we accidentally took home a throw pillow from our vacation rental to trying to buy a computer online with my premium visa cc. The hours we have spent with Visa’s customer service. . .

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