The Bitter With the Sweet

February 19, 2025.Reading time 2 minutes.

I’m at the gym. I’m at Weight Watchers. I’m at line dance class. All of this to prepare for knee replacement surgery. The weight is coming down, but it’s a tough adjustment for a baby boomer (not a senior citizen—never that!). As the elders used to say, “if it ain’t one thing it’s another. If […]

AARP Presents Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am

March 10, 2024.Reading time 6 minutes.

Women’s History Month As I mentioned in an earlier post, Friday, March 8, I joined hundreds of viewers and watched AARP Movies for Grownups’ presentation of “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am”, directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Aside from the experience of viewing this production online and actively commenting with almost 2000 other viewers, I came away with […]

International Women’s Day

March 8, 2024.Reading time 2 minutes.

Nobel and Pulitzer Prize Winner Toni Morrison A film documenting the life of famed author Toni Morrison will air tonight, March 8, just in time for international Women’s day. AARP Movies for Grownups Screenings presents The Pieces I Am, a 2019 documentary by director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. (Follow the link to discover how to gain internet access to this 119-minute broadcast.)https://watch.aarp.org/aarpmfg/play/65a964f0bc5ffc0039ae0a3e I […]

2024 National Women’s History Month

March 1, 2024.Reading time 2 minutes.

Theme: “Women Who Advocate for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion” This month, The Long and Short Stories of Life will honor women from every background who work hard, speak loud, and bring attention to inequality and injustice across our country. American women didn’t begin advocating for equity, diversity, and Inclusion in the 21st century, but from the […]