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FRED FIRST: And the Memories Live On: Super-agers

Their brains age more slowly than normal-agersNot a day passes that I don't remember my mother, but especially this time of year. The end of May two years ago...

FRED FIRST: To The End of The End of The Book

The uncertainty and never-ending unknowing may soon end. For the past year, there has been...

FRED FIRST: My Wee Musical Man-Cave

Digital Tones and Frets and Reeds: Oh My!A month ago this small room behind me...

FRED FIRST: Still is Still Moving . . .

We just don't quite know when the VAN will be at the door THE RECAPThe storyline...

FRED FIRST: Turning Points of Note From a Season of Change

First night: Middle of April: The sliding doors are open with nothing but the screens to...

The Slippery Slope of Winter ~ Part 1

There was just me and the cat that year, living alone in a cabin on Walnut Knob. Only two of the dozen homes beyond...

Country Mice, City Phones and the Cellular Divide

I want to tell you that I have found fantastic free software applications for your smart phone to help you discover and...

In Search of Wildness

Emily Dickinson was right to see that a prairie might consist of only one flower and a bee. When my childhood world was small,...

New Wardrobe, New Calendar – Old Dog, New Tricks

When April comes, I get another candle on my cake, a marker of the passage of time. But more than birthdays, it’s that new...

Home: Settled In For Our Second Ten

They gave us six months. That’s what I heard years later from the long-time residents along our road who watched us renovate the old...

Water Wealth: Our Blue Gold

Will there be enough to go around in tomorrow’s world? How to have adequate water for all who need it on the global scale...