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Thanksgiving isn’t always Norman Rockwell turkeys and frilly aprons. In Jean’s world, it’s turkey rolls at the CCC, shrimp-shaped carrots at the culinary college, and relatives who think pet rats make great dinner companions. From flaming coffee to child-sized toilets, her holiday meals have been less “Hallmark” and more “sitcom blooper reel.” This year, she’ll be celebrating in...
Think cliques are just for high school hallways and teen dramas? Think again. From line dancers to dessert rebels, social circles thrive in retirement communities too. In this post, Jean explores the quirky, compassionate, and occasionally eyebrow-raising world of resident cliques at a continuum care campus where kindness is the default and exclusion is (mostly) passé. Whether y...
Some nicknames fade with time. Others come with a jingle, a toothbrush the size of a baseball bat, and a reputation for dental devotion that turns into family folklore. In mid-century Michigan, one teenage girl earned the name “Bucky” not for buck teeth, but for brushing hers with the zeal of a cartoon mascot—and the timing couldn’t have been better. Ipana toothpaste was all the...
Jean never thought she'd say this, but her blog stats are way up—and she owes it to Artificial Intelligence. After twenty-three years of writing for a select audience of loyal readers, suddenly she's getting triple the clicks. Not because she changed her voice, but because she added a new one: Jasper, her AI line editor, who critiques her drafts with the precision of a writing p...
This post explores the quiet unraveling of verbal fluency in aging—how the right word can hover just out of reach, even when the mind is sharp and the stories are intact. It reflects on the embarrassment of word-search moments, the resilience of written expression, and the legacy of objects that speak when words falter. From a dinner-table stumble to a toy camera turned memory k...
