I so agree with you about us seniors, in general.
Yet, then, there's those of us who live alone and try to be as independent as possible. We might have become a burden, here in the USA, to Social Security and Medicare, but we at least have worked for it and prepaid for all that, during our past lives. Not that all the people today can understand it!
True. I received an email from a friend. Maybe I didn't. But I'm in the U.S. The suffix was .de. Why do I need to respond to my invite through Germany? I looked up the organization, and it seems like something my friend would care about. Am I being scammed, or is this real? I plan to call her today and find out. After all, you can't trust your email.
Good entry
And yes, so true and so tiring that vigilance becomes! I'm afraid to answer any emails, let alone click on any links. I hope and pray things can get better before they get any worse.
I'm with you, phone-wise, Sue! I have a perfectly good flip-phone lying around. It still takes pictures, and may be able to send them via Bluetooth; I haven't tried in awhile, so I can't be sure. The reason I don't use it anymore, is because the Service provider shut down the 3G network it ran on. This forced me to start using my wife's old smartphone, which ran on 4G. I'd still be using it, except that it ran out of memory. There were times I couldn't even send a simple text message.
I don't think it would be a good thing to remove painful memories because it's part of our evolving. If we had no painful memories how would we grow into a better person or sadly into a worse person like some do.
Joy Feb 8, 2026 at 4:05pm In response to "Friends"
Nice entry. It, not having too large a group of friends, shows that you can see into people deeply and act sincerely in their presence.
I used to have several groups of friends when young, but in old age, life has thrown us all over the world and we can only communicate online and sometimes, not even that.