Just Married, Simply

Just Married, Simply

No one can accuse our family of being conventional.

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Bison and Brooklyn

Bison and Brooklyn

More from our road trip across America

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Random Notes on a Road Trip

Random Notes on a Road Trip

We have now agreed on a changed concept of home: Home is no longer an address or a static structure; it’s where we are, together. We are each other’s home.

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Road Scholars

Road Scholars

It has been 11 days since my husband and I left our home in the San Francisco Bay Area and embarked on our longtime dream of a road trip across the expanse of the US – from sea to shining sea, as the anthem goes.  

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10 Reasons to Love – or Hate – Retirement

10 Reasons to Love – or Hate – Retirement

You’re finally retired. Now what?

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Twilight Time

Twilight Time

We faced the Manhattan skyline across the Hudson, watching it turn to red, pink, orange, purple and blue as the sun’s dwindling rays were reflected and refracted by the glass windows of the skyscrapers.

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Getting to 60

Getting to 60

“It” is old age that’s no longer just creeping, but is actually galloping up on us, the boomer generation, famous for, among other things, the skillful (and often expensive) denial of the inevitability of aging.

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Mama Wasn’t My Mother

Mama Wasn’t My Mother

She became the executive chef – and I don’t say this facetiously – of our home, cooking delicious meals that many of our friends still remember and, upon my mother’s instructions, baked perfect chiffon cakes and butter cookies, the likes of which we have not tasted again.  

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