Recent content by maxine

I have AARP United Health Care, if that is what you mean. It is excellent - expensive but, to me, worth in in old age. One thing I told myself back when I was younger and planning for old age: Get the best health care insurance you can because you won't be able to pay the hospital bills with...

I don't mind getting old. It has been rather fun. But two things get me. Controllers. Younger friends who think they have to take control of what I am doing because I am old. Did I do that when I was younger? Tell all my elderly friends and relatives how to do what needs doing? Grab...

Top "Let a Smile be Your Umbrella on a Rainy, Rainy Day." - especially when I am feeling down. Doesn't happen often but does happen. And I cannot carry a tune either. Maybe we need a choir of people who cannot carry a tune. Bet we'd come up with some new notes. Cheers, everybody. Maxine

A half gallon of Blue Bunny Vanilla / Chocolate ice cream. Brightened a few of my busy days.

May I put a smile amid all this sorrow? It does not relate to the actual tests but is touching. There is a book - Operation Crossroads, Lest We Forget, written by William L McGee with his wife Sandra V McGee. The authors humanize the story with a few letters from sailors family back home...

I read everything from cereal boxes to science. In between: from cute and light hearted (Cat Who and Miss Julia) to history and historic fiction., biographies, murder mysteries. science - some of which I understand, some not - scifi but not monsters with three eyes and claws. I want my sciti...

My brother was at Operation Crossroads, 1 July 1946. On the ship St Croix and, according to records, seemed to move back and forth between ship Jason and one other that I have forgotten. He never got a chance to talk about it due to the fifty year oath of silence. He died one year too soon...

Cdestroyer, my a pologies for quoting you above. I am having trouble recognizing where one post starts and ends. Vision problems is one of those elderly issues. I'll work it out in time if I hold on long enough. Maxine

I was born in Florida but did not live there long enough to have personal memories of it. However Florida friends have kept me in touch with their thoughts. One, a gentleman who used to publish a Florida magazine once told me "stay to the north. Less crowded; more peaceful; Pensacola? My...