Personally, my favourite drink is coffee. My husband, on the other hand, doesn’t care for the brew at all. Last Sunday evening, on a whim, I asked him what his favourite drink is. Without hesitation, he replied, “Hot chocolate!” My son always stops in for tea. Some people like pop […]
Marie Snider – This Side of 60
As part of our health routine, my husband and I try to schedule some laughter every day. If nothing else, we watch one or two old sit-coms, like “Mister Ed.” In case you don’t remember, Mister Ed is a beautiful palomino horse owned by Wilbur Post–a horse with a difference. […]
Synchronicity is a word I like, although I’m never quite sure what it means. But I do know when synchronicity happens in my own life! I still remember two amazing synchronicities I have experienced. One occurred more than 20 years ago, shortly after I began syndicating this column and I […]
We built our house in 1970. My husband designed the structure and it fits our lifestyle perfectly. Thus we have enjoyed living here all these years. However, even though we haven’t moved in more than 40 years, I still remember how traumatic it was to move a household. We had […]
We built our house in 1970. My husband designed the structure and it fits our lifestyle perfectly. Thus we have enjoyed living here all these years. However, even though we haven’t moved in more than 40 years, I still remember how traumatic it was to move a household. We had […]
It was a cold and blustery day but the breakfast picnic had been planned earlier so we went ahead anyway. By the shore of a local lake, three young families fried their bacon and eggs on two Coleman stoves. In order to keep the flame alive and everyone warm, we […]
“Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind,” Samuel Ullman wrote in the late 1800s. At the time, Ullman already was past age 70. Furthermore, his hearing loss had forced him to retire from his business. But his retirement afforded him an opportunity to pursue […]
My mother, who was born in 1903, loved school and wanted an education more than anything in the world. Consequently, she was crushed when the doctor said she could not go to school anymore because of her eyes. Even though she had glasses, the doctor said she would ruin her […]
I still remember how much fun it was to get my second master’s degree and how sad it was when the last class was finished. The university was a two-and-a-half hour drive from our home. I drove up every Tuesday afternoon, stayed overnight, and came back Wednesday morning. And my […]
I still remember how much fun it was to get my second master’s degree and how sad it was when the last class was finished. The university was a two-and-a-half hour drive from our home. I drove up every Tuesday afternoon, stayed overnight, and came back Wednesday morning. And my […]
It’s more than 20 years since I began writing “This Side of 60” and now I know which column topics are the most popular. No question about it: “clutter” is number-one. I get more e-mails and comments after a clutter column than any other topic. It seems everyone has the […]
A wise man who lived more than 200 years ago once wrote, “The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.” What an odd way to define success or failure! Most of us count a day well spent if we do all the tasks on […]
