Category Archives: Baby Boomers

A Retirement Parfait

Posted on September 27, 2013 by sheilawill

At least I get to live in the sunshine. Even if I never retire living in Tucson is like being at a resort 24/7 (see the pool next door). No more teaching, which took up so much of my waking … Continue reading →

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Two from Ohio, our political heartland

Posted on September 22, 2013 by sheilawill

Two from Ohio, one each from New Brunswick, Maine, Massachusetts, New York City, Chicago, St. Louis, Oklahoma, Los Angeles and a third-generation Tucsonan. Watermelon salad with feta and mint, pasta with veggies and fresh basil from a Trader Joe’s plant, … Continue reading →

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The Art of Wal-mart

Posted on August 24, 2013 by sheilawill

July 31, 2013: Bentonville, Arkansas, corporate home of Wal-mart. I don’t shop there. But  a friend told me not to miss the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, endowed by Wal-mart kingpin Sam Walton’s daughter Alice.  Since we were driving through … Continue reading →

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Summer at Somes Pond/Somesville, Maine

Posted on July 23, 2013 by sheilawill

Somes Pond may look ordinary but it’s not.                       Three couples walk to Somes Pond from their homes on Oak Hill Road at different times of day. Without air conditioning, … Continue reading →

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Relaxing on the sun porch in rainy Maine

Posted on June 28, 2013 by sheilawill

Is it better to be in rainy Maine, with the wind whistling through all the greenness, than in scorching Tucson? For once in my life it doesn’t matter. I’m happy. Brook and Gian, the wedding couple, will arrive in Southwest … Continue reading →

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Born to Run

Posted on October 29, 2012 by sheilawill

Gabby looked tired. She looked sad although she smiled and subjected herself to hundreds of people taking pictures. She was born to run. U.S. Rep. Ron Barber, who won a special election to take her place in the House, noted … Continue reading →

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Celebrations: The Precious, the Pretty and the Purple

Posted on April 30, 2012 by sheilawill

I’ve collected the entire set. Last year I got my Part A Medicare card but that wasn’t enough of a birthday present so I bought myself a Macbook Air — The Precious. Last month, hearing that I had won a … Continue reading →

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No more crapola

Posted on April 8, 2012 by sheilawill

Last year’s birthday present to myself was a MacBook Air. I had lusted after one since they first came out — the sleekness, the silverness, the speed. Dan only had to watch me with my new toy for a day … Continue reading →

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“Out The Window”

Posted on January 21, 2012 by sheilawill

Stunned to find a typo in a Donald Hall piece in the New Yorker, I was also stunned to imagine myself really old.  “Out The Window,” a personal history of the former poet laureate’s winter at age 83, reminds me of … Continue reading →

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The year I went gray but still wore sequins

Posted on December 31, 2011 by sheilawill

On the eve of 2012 it’s okay to eat as much chocolate as I want. Alternating between the raspberry and ginger dark chocolate that Dan presented me with on Christmas morning, that’s how the day is — one bite in … Continue reading →

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