by Bonnie Rozanski | Jul 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
Another year inexorably rolls around. Like it or not, I am 75. And so, a riff on the tsuris of birthdays -My children sent me flowers – a lovely bouquet that obviously cost a bundle. They sent it online to a Philadelphia florist, who came shortly after dinner, bearing...
by Bonnie Rozanski | May 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
Doing well. Hubby made me lunch and we’re going out to dinner soon on the first night that doesn’t bode rain. Meanwhile, baking a couple of baguettes. Backyard is green. Tomatoes in the raised bed ablossum. My grandchildren facetimed. Got Wordle in 3. Hey,...
by Bonnie Rozanski | Apr 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
We learn, as adults, to plan ahead: Organize your life, be productive, use your time wisely. Get an education, get a job, get a better job, have children, have more children, buy a house, buy a better house. And in those middle, sandwich years, it’s generally...
by Bonnie Rozanski | Nov 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
Perhaps everyone has a moment like this. Perhaps not. In any case, this is mine. So, two days ago, I decided on a whim to look up a boy I used to know fifty-some odd years ago in college. I do things like this periodically, but not too often. I...
by Bonnie Rozanski | Sep 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
About two months ago, the New York Times had a wonderful video on Jocelyn Bell, the Irish astronomer who discovered pulsars, rapidly rotating neutron stars that emit regular pulses of radio waves....
by Bonnie Rozanski | Mar 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
My husband got his first shot through U of Penn Hospital, who reached out to him, since he has been a patient. He’s due to get his second March 11. Despite our signing me up at half a dozen sites, however, I hadn’t gotten mine yet. Philadelphia is...
by Bonnie Rozanski | Jun 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
Sheltering in place brings up a lot of the same stuff as living in retirement, which, after all, is sheltering mostly in place, mainly because you have nowhere scheduled to go. And going back to basics as we old geezers know from experience – and a lot of...
by Bonnie Rozanski | Apr 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
Last night entailed a lot of tossing and turning. For one, I was woken up at 4 in the morning as sometimes happens in a geriatric person like myself, by a major cramp in my left calf. It starts when I’m still asleep but one leg feels this irresistible urge to...
by Bonnie Rozanski | Feb 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
So, a couple months ago around noon, I was sitting at my computer. As I stood up to go over to my husband’s desk at the other end of the room, I suddenly felt the room spinning. “Whoa, I’m dizzy,” I said. I dropped down onto the couch, but that didn’t make it much...
by Bonnie Rozanski | Mar 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
We’re planning on going to the supermarket for our weekly run, but my husband’s on the computer, where he can be for long periods of time. So, I busy myself watering plants, unloading the dishwasher, doing anything to fill up the time until he’s ready to go. This...
