Tag: aging

Californians Leavin’

Birthday 51 snuck up on me for a lot of familiar reasons. I had no birthday story in the oven until a week ago when inspiration struck me, courtesy of a morning at the DMV. Hope you enjoy… ——————————————————————————— I’ll never understand why pointless memories stick to the […]

You Can Hear Me, Minnie

The first evidence of our pug’s hearing loss was her sudden disinterest in barking at the garbage man. We mistook it for age related apathy at the time, the same sort that overtakes older humans, should we live long enough. Then she stopped noticing when people walked into […]

Peace in Forgetting

The world is different than the one I grew up in. Used to be, when I rang your doorbell, I had a product in hand: some gizmo or another meant to solve one of life’s nagging problems. Something to remove the metallic taste from your tap water, or […]