Folks, after a loooong delay—a year of recovery from my 3-month 2019 hospitalization in Amsterdam, two years of pandemic isolation, and a year of planning—my husband and I recently celebrated a return to traveling with a two-week trip to Northern Europe. I shared pictures from our reunion with the people who saved my life when…
There was no question about trying to get my unresponsive feet into even the bigger Skechers — if you’ve ever tried to put a shoe on a baby, you get the idea.
Paris’ Luxembourg Gardens One of our favorite days of our 2018 week in Paris was the Sunday we spent in the Luxembourg Gardens, wandering along the sandy paths with other couples, grandmothers and grandchildren, entire families, “le tout Paris.” Jardín du Luxembourg, July 2018 Amsterdam’s Vondelpark The following week, we discovered much the same bucolic…
It may have been a workout on the cruise ship that caused an undiagnosed aneurysm to develop a leak last May, but it was my body’s strength that kept me alive in the Amsterdam ICU. Still, as happens when you lie still for six weeks, I lost a quarter of my weight and most of…
My brain rushes through all the things I think I must do today, or tomorrow, or should have done yesterday: paying bills; cleaning house; making, changing, and keeping appointments. I've already done a mile walk and 20 minutes of squats, planks, and leg lifts. My daily crossword and cryptogram are complete. It's too early to…