After I returned from Japan, I kept threatening to write a book entitled "How to be tall at 5’2". I wrote for a weekly entertainment magazine while in Okinawa and was always on the lookout for the zany, the odd, and/or the different to use in my humor column there. (I was going to compile those witty pieces into one volume with that title.) The most obvious difference for me…
I can’t believe I got lost! I have one handy talent that my husband doesn’t have. I always know where I am in relation to the world. This came in real handy during all my travels and during those years of newspaper delivery. Poor old Tommy is "spatially challenged"—he gets lost inside buildings just by turning a corner. So he’s delighted that I have missed our street three times recently…
Having been shed of normal, full-time, one-employer type of employment since December, I find that I’ve had time to look at the scales of my life: how balanced am I? I’ve spent so much of my life as so many have, working whatever jobs and whatever hours seem necessary at the time to make ends meet. Last year while working for a post-secondary school, I found myself teaching and counseling…