Active Adult, Senior Living, Over 55, Retirement Resort. Whatever you call it, sticking a bunch of old people together behind guarded security fences doesn’t seem like a recipe for fun and fr...
https://pegoleg.com/2023/02/06/top-10-signs-youre-living-in-an-over-55-community/
It is a truth universally known that appliances die in threes. You watch in helpless dread when the dishwasher starts leaking, because you know your breakdown woes have just begun. Appliance ...
https://pegoleg.com/2021/08/26/life-loss-and-my-23-year-old-top-loading-maytag-washer/
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about Pollyanna, a book written 100 years ago which tells the story of a little girl whose cheerful determination to look on the bright side infects everyone aro...
https://pegoleg.com/2020/05/11/lets-play-the-glad-game-home-lock-down-edition/
Some people think they were born at the wrong time; adventurers wish they had lived in 900 AD when Vikings sailed the seas, and fleshy women yearn for the 1600s when their bodies would have been ...
I have my mother’s hands. That’s not something I’ve ever taken as a compliment – no offense, Mom. Our hands are broad and short-fingered. A network of lines criss-crosses bot...
It’s normal to lose your train of thought now and then. If that train routinely jumps the track and crashes in a fiery ball of twisted wreckage, you may have a problem. My husband and I were ...
https://pegoleg.com/2018/02/21/a-whatchamacallit-by-any-other-name-would-smell-as-sweet/
Do you have lovely eyes? A noble nose? An infectious smile? Sometimes it’s hard to see our own outstanding features, even if they are obvious to everyone else. That’s because some of ...
https://pegoleg.com/2018/01/31/when-it-says-loco-lazy-loser-on-the-label-label-label-2/
Forty years ago today, I thought the end was near. I found myself confronted by a pack of snarling, howling, wild animals; a metal mesh gate the only thing separating me from certain disembowel...
I’m just about done with whatever preparations I’m going to make for Christmas and I’m ready to let the celebrations commence. If you didn’t get a card from me by now, chances are yo...
At this joyous time of year, many of you are sorting through your stash of previously received lame gifts, searching for likely candidates to regift. In that same spirit, I am regifting a class...
https://pegoleg.com/2017/12/18/little-red-hens-christmas-joy-2/