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  When faced with a situation over which we have no or little control and don’t have a definite answer or solution, our brains go on overdrive. We churn out assumptions—it could be this, or that, or maybe or not at all or all in. We are masters of spinning hypothetical scenarios, the way our dryers spin clothing around and around in cycles until it’s dry. We do the same until we’ve exhausted all possibilities. We have a good excuse. We’re creative types who cogitate and escalate as if our assumptions will make whatever is in our craw go away...

We wrote a blog in December 2023, about how we’re feeling old, (‘I am too old for this! Time to pass the baton [or drumstick metaphorically] ). It was about changing traditions when certain circumstances occur, and we’d like the younger generation to take on some family traditions.   Time has passed since we wrote that blog, and we’re still here (fortunately), still active and busy (yeh, us), but we’re feeling even older. We’re moving at times as slow as garden snails (a reason we’d never eat escargot). We ignore creaking and cracking bones and aching joints, maybe walk with...

Do you wake up at three or four in the morning, disturbed by thoughts of what’s ahead? Or you’re about to buy a condo that you’re not sure you can afford? Or your significant other has been diagnosed with an illness and you must care for them when you work full-time? Or you may have a work deadline looming and you must get up at 4 a.m. to meet it? Who can count all the challenges that we face daily? Not us.  Stress. Stress. Stress. What exactly is it? For us it’s feeling out of control, being overwhelmed and very...

Lewy body dementia is little known and difficult to diagnose, yet it affects 1.4 million people in the U.S. and approximately 11 million worldwide. Currently, there is no cure. Mary Lou Falcone, a classical music publicist/strategist, nursed her late husband through the condition and has written one of the only memoirs on the topic that is actually a love story in homage to her late husband, to raise awareness of LBD.  It’s titled, “I Didn’t See it Coming: Scenes of Love, Loss, and Lewy Body Dementia.”  A profile about Mary Lou Falcone and the book appeared in the New York Times (Oct....

Both of us lead really busy lives with little time to primp every day. We try to go with the flow when it comes to fashion trends, not necessarily buying and wearing the latest.  On the other hand, we care how we look; we’re each a little vain as long as it doesn’t cost big bucks and take up too much time. Overall, we’d say we like to be presentable, our benchmark for how we’re adjusting to aging and sticking to our strict budgets.  Many of you may have a different playbook and say, whoa, now is the time to...