The Diary of a Gold-Digger

I finished college a semester early, in December, just so I could save one semester's worth of tuition, which would have been about $2,0...

When I first moved to Temuco, the city where I lived when I was a Peace Corps volunteer, I shared a house with two other gringas. It took me...

You know that we moved the summer before my senior year of high school. I went from a school full of military and embassy kids who were used...

Which pen name do you prefer? Helen Tennesen or Sylvia Stasek?

The summer before my senior year of high school, we moved from Howard Air Force Base in the Panama Canal Zone to Randolph Air Force Base in ...

Hello readers from A Femme d'un Certain Age! My friend Tish very kindly invited me to post at her place today and last week. I'm ho...

I have a photo from the summer of 1971, which we spent at my grandparents' farm in northern Wisconsin. We were living in Spain at the ti...

The only good thing about being laid off - other than getting a bunch of money and time at once, which is nice but not such a good strategy ...

When Primo and I first met, there was a lot of eating out. A lot of cooking fine meals. Indeed, on my first visit to his place in Fairview,*...

I think I've told you guys that Primo and I went to Morocco shortly after we met. I had been laid off from my job and had friends workin...

You have all been wondering, "How did Christmas go with Sly and Doris this year? What present could they give that would top a framed p...

My dad was not a violent man. He was not quick to anger. I never saw him get in a fight or a major argument, although my brother surely trie...

My chickadees, it has been a busy few weeks and I have not had much time for writing here. Many apologies. However, I will leave you with a ...

You guys, I have to tell you about something that just happened that has made me so happy. Do you remember when I told you about my high sch...