Lori Duff Writes
When my mother was in hospice care, she craved those little bitty ice cream cones with a baby scoop of ice cream and a hard chocolate coating like these. She had gone through years of suffering with lung cancer that eventually spread to her brain and, dangit, she’d earned her right to an ice cream…
For the life of me, I will never understand why people prefer to be sitting in traffic, sucking down carbon monoxide from the tailpipe of the car in front of them, to public transportation. Recently, I had to drive from my home in suburban Atlanta to Philadelphia to pick up my daughter from school. It…
Like 98% of the English speaking world, I have been playing Wordle. Wordle, in case you are one of the 2%, or in the event that you are reading this so far in the future that Wordle has faded into obscurity, like pet rocks or sea monkeys, is an online word game, now owned by…
Okay, people. It’s 2023, not 2019. I would have been much more patient and understanding four years ago. But here we are, having had over three years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and we should be further along. Please. Let’s just start the Zoom already. In 2019, virtual meetings were something that only…
‘Stress’ is, I guess, a relative term. I feel like I have a pretty stressful life, with a high pressure job, a house and kids to take care of. But, I also don’t worry about where my next meal is coming from or if a tiger is going to stalk out of the jungle and…
I often hear people my age and older bemoaning the fact that children are no longer taught writing in cursive in school. Aside from the fact that people’s signatures look silly if they aren’t written in cursive – riddle me this. Why, exactly do they need to learn? These are kids who know how to…
Here are the top five things I remember thinking and can’t believe I actually used to think that: I think you’ll notice a prevailing theme. I used to go out and do stuff, and going out and doing stuff and being with my friends was a priority over creature comforts and bodily functions like sleep. …
My husband recently had back surgery – he had two of his lumbar discs fused to two other lumbar discs which had been fused about nine years ago. No, he hadn’t been in a car wreck or fall. He just got old(er) and the human body wasn’t originally designed to live as long as it…
When I was a young girl, my grandmother taught me to knit. For many years, all I could knit was rectangles, but you can make a lot of things with rectangles. Scarves, blankets, even hats. My Dad, whenever he saw me knitting, called me “Madame Defarge” after the Charles Dickens character in A Tale of…
I guess because I’m over fifty and algorithms are real, I keep getting suggested links to articles with titles like, “Ten Outfits You Should Never Wear if You’re Over Fifty” or “Makeup Trends to Avoid if You’re Over Fifty” or “Haircuts That Will Just Make You Look Like a Dried-up Hag if You Are North…