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Who can think of having fun when we’re worried about Supreme Court decisions, random shootings, the continuing war in Ukraine, rents going up, interest rates rising, the stock market’s ups and downs? You get the drift? It’s easy to remain discouraged.   However, let’s shift gears fast. Why let gloom and doom dictate our daily routines. We can’t control what’s going on in the world. So, as the weather heats up, it’s time for some balance and outright joy.  Summer seems a short season. One minute it’s here and everything is blooming gorgeously and the tomatoes at the farmer’s market are...

Sometimes, we get maudlin thinking about how quickly we move through life. When we look back, we realize how time flies by so quickly.  It seems like only yesterday when Barbara moved to St. Louis and met Margaret, Barbara's kids and then grandchildren were born, or Margaret's three kids graduated from college, got their first jobs and then her husband passed away. It's longer ago that we graduated grade school, high school, college and married.  We write the date of a new year on a check and think, where did the year go?  What happened to all those special moments...

Nostalgia is old news. What does change is our attitude toward looking back. Reminiscing tends to get rosier, we discovered, when we went to St. Louis recently for a signing of Not Dead Yet at the Schlafly Library hosted by Left Bank Books. Here's a link to the talk, emceed by St. Louis Jewish Light's editor, Ellen Futterman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWyUfGzmAaE Getting on the plane to St. Louis got us out of our COVID bubble. For Barbara, it was the first time she had been on a plane in more than three years and revisiting St. Louis in six years after living...

While we care about how we look and what we wear--the style, cut, fabric, even the designer of our clothing or where we bought it, we would not claim to be women’s fashionistas. Far cry. When it comes to clothes shopping, we are pragmatic. We crave quick, convenient, affordable. Nothing long and drawn out like perusing the aisles of a store we love like some people we know used to enjoy pre-COVID-19. We like in and out, akin to a fast-food restaurant. We know what we need, and we think we know what looks best on us. However, during pandemic...

Spring is renewal, rebirth, a reboot. It offers a change in scenery and a lift to life. The idea that we can look forward to seeing flowers bloom in public spaces, at favorite nurseries and in our own yards, watch the bright kelly green grass come up and multi-colored flowers bud, gives us hope that a new season is emerging after the long dark, cold days of winter.  And this picture of rebirth is perhaps a metaphor for what we need to happen in the world right now. Will we emerge from this darkness into brightness and safety this season...