An observant writer's take on relationships, health, living in Chicago, unusual experiences, the news, retirement, books, hobbies, volunteering, smart shopping, and anything else that's on my mind
I remember reading an article some years ago by a highly educated man who said that he didn’t follow the daily news. He’d hear about anything major regardless, he reasoned, and there were more intellectually challenging things to occupy his mind.
I was shocked.
After finishing Caleb Carr’s book My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me, I looked at my Fanny and said, “I feel like I haven’t loved you enough.”
Seven women in my family were planning a girls weekend to celebrate my sister Nancy’s 60th birthday. We rented an Airbnb for three nights in St. Joseph, Michigan, the heart of southwest Michigan’s wine country. Togetherness was the point of the weekend, but as long as we’d be going to wine tastings, I figured I should learn something about wine.