Greetings, dear Friend, from a winter wonderland! Boston, Massachusetts got walloped with the biggest snow storm we've had in over four years and the 8th biggest in recorded history. These last few years have been so "easy" and it lulled me (and others, I'm sure) into forgetting just how challenging it can be when the white stuff piles up. Sure, I lived through "Snowmageddon" when the city got over 100" the winter of 2014-15. Actually, I went and hid out in NY for some of tha

Hello, dear Reader.  Whenever I sit down to write for you I wonder what I'm going to say. Sometimes I'll have made notes during the week when I've heard something that sounds like it's noteworthy. I might start off heading in one direction and end up in another. For me, it's a fascinating journey, a bit like a microcosm of life in general. Lately, my ears, eyes, and soul perk up whenever something about aging pops up. We are all aging, all the time -- what's the saying ... yo