A friend of mine turned me on to a Netflix series titled Man on the Inside. The show is a comedy about a retiree turned amateur private investigator trying to find a thief in a Senior Living Community. Since my friend’s husband is associated with the production, I decided to support his efforts and watch a couple of episodes. I’m glad I did…

There are few things that I enjoy more than writing. Over the years, as I’ve matured, so have the characters that I’ve created. Mature characters bring a different perspective to writing – they bring experience, wisdom, and an appreciation of the privilege of growing older…

Has it ever occurred to you that you could live to be 100 years old? Advances in modern medicine make that possible. Recent census data estimates that there are roughly 101,000 people living in the United States who are age 100 years old or older. It is estimated that there will be more than 422,000 people who will reach this milestone by 2054…

When asked to define the word dream, most people say that a dream is either the nocturnal experience when a person is asleep, or an aspiration or goal a person wants to achieve. There is little that can be done about the first definition, but the ability to reach a goal, to follow a dream, is not beyond our control…

A few years ago, my writing partner, Lillie Evans, and I were notified that our full-length play script, Grandmothers, Incorporated won a playwriting competition. Our work was selected from over 600 submissions from 33 countries. Nobody could tell us that we weren’t hot stuff. We were ecstatic, on top of the world. We were also reluctant…