Join this bionic grandma in her battle against "the wrinkled years."
KITCHEN-GARDENING OBLITERATES WINTER BLUES I have a jungle in the kitchen and it’s on the brink of bloom. When I migrated from the farmlands of central California where I could grow anything year-round, I was aghast at the cost of flowering plants in Connecticut nurseries — and they died every winter! How could I plant flowering begonias and hibiscus, camellias Read more…
FOUND AND LOST With $111.75 in quarters I went to my bank yesterday — a major financial institution in my state. I badly needed the money to pay overdue bills. Ransacking my drawers of miscellaneous junk and underwear, I found Read more…
THE UNEXPECTED IS ALWAYS WAITING TO HAPPEN I took out a Christmas tree today or rather the tree took out my VW Beetle. I was driving to the allergist’s office to get my weekly shots. The weather was blustery, with 50-mph wind gusts bringing down limbs and tossing twigs everywhere. Along the neighborhood roads boxy blue garbage containers, after being Read more…
AT ARE AGE FUN ALWAYS COMES WITH A WARNING I was up at 4 a.m. today bundled up and ready to shovel out from under New England’s first big snow storm of the season. First thing I did was sweep the porch and steps down to the walkway. The snow is wet and slick sticking to the cement like egg Read more…
