Author: Susan

I do this blog for PG audiences and another one for R audiences with Bae Bliss.

Fix Your Past Mistakes, or Get a Million Dollars?

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(re-run) A Facebook post asks if you’d rather go back in time and fix all of your mistakes or don’t do that and get $1,000,000 instead. That’s easy. People will take the money. What if the choice were, go back in time and fix all your mistakes or don’t (no money)?  I’d say no to… Continue reading Fix Your Past Mistakes, or Get a Million Dollars?

Bad Things that Come in Small Packages

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(re-run) They met online on okcupid. The horizontal happened fast. Things were going well, so after six months, Barry gave up his ugly apartment and bought a condo. She moved in right away. Then he started to notice her temper: 1. If the house wasn’t perfectly clean at all times. 2. If his son’s dog… Continue reading Bad Things that Come in Small Packages

Lock It Down

Posted in biological clock, dating pool, divorce, empty nester, love, lovers, memoir, men, politics, relationships, ring, womenLeave a comment

When we were in our twenties and thirties, we were looking for a husband and father of our future children. Our biological clocks ticked louder the closer we got to 35, the cut-off point for a low-risk pregnancy. Yes, older women give birth after that, but fertility drops off in the thirties, and it is… Continue reading Lock It Down

Porn for Women

Posted in clean-up, cleaning, commercials, cooking, dancing, dinner, memoir, men, perfume, porn, pornography, Victoria's Secret, washing dishes, washing the car, womenLeave a comment

There is a little book series out there called Porn for Women. It has shirtless men doing exciting things that turn on a typical woman, like vacuuming, doing dishes, and changing diapers. Why? Because a woman’s mind works differently than a man’s.A man sees a woman on the Victoria’s Secret commercial and is ready to go.… Continue reading Porn for Women

Don’t Blame the Bees

Posted in bumblebees, honey bees, memoir, music, music in the park, yellow jackets, yellow jackets, pollinators,Leave a comment

I went to music in the park Saturday evening. The place was packed for one of the best local bands, East Bay Mudd.   Every spot was taken by 5:30. The band played from six to 8:30. At about 7:00, my friend came over to me on the dance floor and said a bee had stung… Continue reading Don’t Blame the Bees

Getting Some Action

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Hooking up, doing the nasty, bumping uglies.Getting down, kicking it, going all the way.Doing it, doing the deed.There are many euphemisms for having sex, or as Sheldon on the Big Bang Theory would say, “having coitus,” and once he even said, “Dance with no pants.”In the olden days, someone wrote a song about making whoopee. Having sex… Continue reading Getting Some Action

Postpone Dementia, Have More Sex

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At breakfast, I was reading my sister’s AARP magazine for April and May, particularly the article called “Your Body at 60” by Sari Harrar. On page 39 she says that “the more sex you have now, the lower your risk for dementia in your later years.”If that isn’t license to have more time in bed… Continue reading Postpone Dementia, Have More Sex

Mornings Are for Blogging

Posted in blogging, Facebook, first draft, ideas, imagination, letter carrier, memoir, memory, morning person, night owl, photographs, revise, USPS, writing1 Comment

(re-run) When you’re mostly retired, like I am, you find that you think best in the morning. I’ve written and published 29 children’s books, and each one was born in the a.m. (not after midnight). At night I am pretty worthless. I can usually read until 7:00 or 8:00 p.m. Then it’s Snoozeville after that,… Continue reading Mornings Are for Blogging

Best Friends of Days Gone by

Posted in 1970s, agent, children, children's books, friends, getting published, Maid of Honor, memoir, weddingLeave a comment

(re-run) On another day of reflection, I’m wondering how I lost track of two dear friends, one from high school, the other from college. I was maid of honor in the bridesmaid line-up at each of their weddings.  I’m still wondering how that ever could’ve happened, looking back over the past forty years. I got… Continue reading Best Friends of Days Gone by

Oh No, Not the Warriors!

Posted in aging, basketball, best, California, Golden State Killer, Golden State Warriors, helpful strangers, hospital, humor, memoir, newspaper, police officer, relationshipsLeave a comment

(re-run from 2019?) Last week I took Sis to the hospital for a Barium Swallow test. We had just settled into the waiting room when an elderly woman with a cane came in the door. She had to go around Sis’s wheelchair to get to the check-in window. “Am I at the right place?” she… Continue reading Oh No, Not the Warriors!