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My hair. I’ve been obsessed with it all my life.  My mother told me that when I was born I had no hair. And I didn’t have much hair until I was two years of age. Even then it was not at all pretty, like my cousins who had flaxen waves and golden eyelashes.  Sure, I may… Continue reading Hair Today, Where Tomorrow?

by Mary Ellen Stepanich, Ph.D. (This was the winning entry in the Essay Contest sponsored by the Living Magazine at Westbrook Village, May 2022) At my age, I don’t expect to get smiles – or even friendly greetings – from handsome young men who cross my path. But a very unusual event happened the other… Continue reading How Do You Spell Success

For two decades, I have volunteered as a voice actor and reader for Sun Sounds of Arizona, a radio reading service for the blind and print disabled. For one of my programs, called “Reminiscing,” I read from a magazine titled, “The Good Old Days.” When I think about the “good old days,” I’m thinking of… Continue reading Looking back …with bifocals