“Muhammad Ali” strikes a chord.

MOXIE COSMOS SAYS . . .

My friend Trudy Heeb has Parkinson’s disease, but that hasn’t stopped her from producing about 200 works of art in the past two years.  They include layers of effort, from photographs or drawings to copies arranged in rows Warhol style; assemblages embellished by natural materials or Japanese paper cuttings and

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Stranger danger is for kids.

MOXIE COSMOS SAYS . . .

Last night my husband and I had the best time at a party thrown by Carolyn Rashti, a Graham-trained dancer, and now a certified aqua therapist, soon turning 80.  We were going into a crowd of people we didn’t know and had to wear funny hats.  That’s just not who

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Lively and experienced. Sometimes blonde.

MOXIE COSMOS SAYS . . .

In SOPHIE REDESIGNED, Deborah Conyers is financially unprepared for what could be a longer lifetime than she ever imagined.  Like so many women growing up in the 1950s, she thought she’d been taken care of by men.  No one in those days thought about inflation; we only thought things would

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A moving experience without the tears.

MOXIE COSMOS SAYS. . .

Elder sleuth Sophie George rarely complains about joint pain.  She’s in the “good half” of the over-65 population.  The other half suffers.  They don’t walk around Dorado Circle twice every day.

Elder Carelink featured an article by Dr. Kate Smith, Geriatric Care Management Consultant, about the loss of mobility leading to loss

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Self-publishing is a full-time job

MOXIE COSMOS SAYS . . .

If time is money, than I am spending millions on getting this book the attention it deserves.  Talk about learning curve!  At the moment, I am trying to decide if it is worth $149 plus an unknown amount to make 8 edits to the interior of the paperback as it

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If you don't mind getting dizzy . . .

MOXIE COSMOS SAYS . . .

SOPHIE REDESIGNED now is on Amazon’s Kindle.  You can even see a FREE SAMPLE.  There were problems at first:  not only had the italicized sections been lost, but all the text was centered, so it read more like a long, narrative poem.  It was even hard to tell where the

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I never got to say what I thought.

MOXIE COSMOS SAYS . . .

Book discussions can be frustrating.  I quit going to the Faculty Wives Book Club about four decades ago, even before they realized the name was sexist.  Whether there is a Faculty Spouse Book Club, I doubt.  In the first place, the invitation would have to go to 1000 or more

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“No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.”

MOXIECOSMOS SAYS . . .

Aldo Leopold has been on my mind, and although it is two months early for this particular quote attributed to him, it fits the way we observed Easter weekend, April 2-5.

“In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all

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