Research has proved that reading Listicles will give you brain cancer. Actually, that’s not true. I just made it up. But it could be true. Listicles don’t have to tell the truth. It’s not as if there’s a Listicle Police that patrols the intern…
Four years ago, at age 61, I discovered that the man that I’d loved and trusted for 20 years had a secret girlfriend on the side for the past 10, when he slipped up and left this text to her on my computer: “I love you and I have always loved you.” So m…
Twenty-one years ago, I left the practice of law to take a job at my local public library. I usually joke that I did it when I realized that having a lot of fun was more important to me than having a lot of money. But that’s only part of it. A library i…
What if the Beatles songs were about the COVID-19 pandemic? We might have songs like: Help! I Need Some Toilet Paper! All You Need is Hand Sanitizer Can’t Buy Me Lysol Wipes Eight Zoom Meetings a Week She’s Leaving Home to Go to The Grocery Stor…
It’s been 50 years since The Beatles first came to America, but even if you’re 64, their songs are probably as fresh in your mind as they were when you first heard them. Don’t believe me? Just take this test. Help! I need ____ l) a groupie 2) Insta…
What? Me Worry? (Airport Selfie of the author on the way to California.) The world has turned really weird, and we’re each living in our own particular version of that. My own weird reality is that I was suddenly called upon to drop everything…
The library where I work had closed. I was safe in my cozy little house, sheltering on my own, with lots of books and plenty of coffee, and my piano. Eerily empty: SFO Terminal B at 8pm on April 4. (Photo by Roz Warren.) I’m 65. When it comes…
With age comes wisdom. And maybe cataracts. You have more than a one in two chance of having a cataract or having had cataract surgery by the time you’re 80. I’m having cataract surgery next week. Hoping to have a little fun with this rit…
