Helen Hudson
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MAMBA MIA
Like the guy in the Mickey Mouse ears above, I am not afraid to look like an idiot. Just ask last week’s readers from Canada, Nigeria, Czechia, Slovakia, Poland, Pakistan and the Phillipines. I do it so often that I’ve come to view it as a natural stress reliever. This week, I called one of my… Read more
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WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU
Photo: Courtesy of RandiNajacPhotography A friend of mine captured this roadrunner swallowing a rattlesnake. Her photo is both magnificent and shocking. It is hard for me to imagine those fangs going down his soft, feathery gullet without puncturing and poisoning him along the way. And yet, it did, leaving nary a scratch. It reminds me… Read more
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OUT OF THE CLOSET
When I was little, my mother used to keep my father’s ashes in a shoebox in the linen closet. Whenever she was angry with me, she would point to the closet and say, “If your father were alive,” and then she would threaten something. One day, I went into that closet, opened the box and… Read more
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MY-O-PIC
Presently, 30% of the world is myopic. By 2050, almost 50% of us will be. That’s a staggering 5 billion people, half the world’s population! Myopia is a vision condition in which near objects appear clear, but objects further away look blurry. While one could apply this ‘short-sighted’ label to our thinking, it is an actual problem with our… Read more
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BROKEN HEART?
What does this look like to you? Me, in the tie-dyed shirt, having fun with longtime friends? If that’s your guess, you would be very wrong. I had just met the folks pictured here less than 15 minutes before this was taken. I wandered up to their pickleball court and before I could even ask to join them, they… Read more
AGEFULLY AGING 