Penelope Bijoux
Life in the Time of Covid 19: Masks
One size does not fit all.
We started this Covid, Shelter-in-Place time with a shortage of masks – remember? And, now everyone is making masks. Or at least they should be. We have designer masks, industrial strength masks, masks especially … Read more...
Life in the Time of Covid 19: Shopping
Who knew that fulfilling a basic need like providing food for survival would besuch an ordeal. My friends who are using delivery services are a lot smarter than me.
Trips to the grocery store used to be fun – or … Read more...
Life in the time of Covid-19: Media will Save Us
Thank goodness that during this ‘shelter in place’ time we have so much media and technology! So many devices. So little time? Not anymore. Now we have time! Can you imagine what it was like in 1919 during the influenza … Read more...
Life in the Time of Covid-19: Diary of a Compulsive Cleaner
Oh Lord, what’s happened to me! Life in the time of Covid has turned me into a compulsive cleaner.
Since the ‘shelter in place’ edict came through, there’s been no problem filling time. Lots of work for clients that was … Read more...
Re-Defining The Middle-Aged Fashionista
My lifelong clothes-shopping nightmare has suddenly become worse. The basic shape of my body hasn’t changed much since adolescence. It’s just become slightly bigger. Except for my boobs, of course. I’m carrying a little more weight now. I’m a little … Read more...
Life and Death in Aspen … An Odyssey
Each time I go back to Aspen for a visit the conversations always go something like … Did you know that Billy married Greg’s former wife Linda? Greg has been with Margie for more than 15 years now. He left … Read more...
Sarah Clark’s Perspectives on Being Thoroughly Unmarried
Ever the astute social observer, I have noticed that an alarming number of weddings this season have been for people my own age. Some of them are for people I know. The rest are friends of my roommate who, at … Read more...
Confessions of a Romance Junky
If you’re a romance junky, you develop a flair for not being discriminating. If the visual appeal draws you, you become sucked into a pheromone vacuum, sometimes never to return. Or sometimes to return as another casualty of romance.
It’s … Read more...
The Single Woman’s Prayer
Please God, let a man come into my life who will wine me, dine me, dance me, and make love to me until I can’t walk unassisted. Make him big and strong so that he can protect me from the … Read more...