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How We Met
We often get asked if we are sisters or how we met. So here is our history, . . . at least this is what we can remember: A September 1980 Pawtuxet Valley Times article promoting a League of Women...
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Let’s Talk Trash!
Looking for a unique way to spend a couple of hours??? Take a tour of what we Rhode Islanders lovingly call the Johnston landfill–it is quite the place! Every day some 400 trash trucks roll into...
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a little bit of culinary humor
Over the past few years we have all gotten an inkling that Connie pretty much would rather do anything than cook. When I decided to make pork pies for the holidays using Connie’s family recipe, I...
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“Movies For Grown-Ups”
Can’t remember which 2014 movies you meant to rent or stream? You know . . . those well-reviewed movies that appeal to our “age range?” AARP has a site called Movies For Grownups on which they...
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CSI RI
RISCL Director Dennis Hilliard showing us the ropes Looking for an interesting and fun way to spend a couple of hours during these long winter months? Visit CSI RI, better known as the RI State...
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Friendship
Recently a friend offered to join me for a lecture that I was attending just because she knew that I was having a bad day. I was taken aback and very moved by this offer from the heart. I don’t think...
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Acid Reflux–An Occasional Annoyance Or A Serious Health Problem?
Unfortunately, baby boomers experience increasing gastrointestinal problems as we age. Dang! Yes, we know those blankety-blank discomforts: gas, bloating, indigestion, diarrhea, constipation . . ....
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Do We Get Enough Vitamin D?
Another cold and snowy day–ouch!! Where is our sun? Such is life in RI nowadays–and a good time to talk about…Vitamin D! Do we get enough Vitamin D here in RI? Probably not. It is difficult to...
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Nyik, attla, qanuk . . . aka “snow”
“The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. ” Margaret Atwood Can you guess what this is? (We guess that Rhode Islanders have...
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More Mountains to Climb!
Exactly three years ago we set out to create an “aging smart” blog for baby boomers and…here we are 160 posts later! It’s been a great journey for our brains and for our souls. Hopefully, it’s been...
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