I met a new man yesterday. White hair. Plenty of wrinkles. Big smile. I was smiling back. Coquetting all the way. I went home and looked him up on Facebook, as you do. He is twenty-six years younger than I. Twenty-six years!! I froze. How could I have missed that age difference? How could I
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Life Askew By Julia Galosy Can’t Teach an Old Dog . . . Let’s start with an understanding of what we mean by Intelligence before we go on. Intelligence encompasses many related mental competencies, such as the capacities to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend ideas and language, and learn.1 As current Third
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Life Askew By Julia Galosy I’m Wondering About…Neckties When I was a tiny girl I hardly ever saw men with ties because my Dad and my Grandpa were both dentists and wore those white, zip-up uniforms. I went to Catholic pre-school, so no ties there. At three years old or so, I only saw
Life Askew By Julia Galosy True Love Never Runs Smooth It has taken me a long, long time. For some reason, we cacti only grow about an inch a year. My man, however, was already 70 years old when I was a little bulb. Don´t scoff. Seventy years is nothing for an Elephant Palm.
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Life Askew By Julia Galosy It’s All Relative “When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.” Fat lot of good that does me now. A head full of quotes doled out to the unwashed
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Life Askew By Julia Galosy The Writer’s Corner The most powerful relationship in fiction is between writer and reader. The writer can only progress to a certain point while presenting a fictional world, the imagination of the reader completes it. Over time fiction has become more sparse and readers’ imaginations have flourished. Enter Flash
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Life Askew* By Julia Galosy Deep Learning As many of you likely know, Deep Learning is a term from artificial intelligence (AI). It means mining data in such depth that the results are the creation of neural networks to tackle complex problems. Although Deep Learning comes from technology it might serve as a metaphor
SEPARATELY TOGETHER: A Coupling Option for Third Agers By Dr. Julia R. Galosy The kids are grown. Your partner has passed on—in one way or another. You have found your tribe and your social life is flourishing. Your home is exactly as you want it. Your time is yours. Suddenly Cupid drops by and
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The Kings By Julie Galosy We heard the church bells first: clanging some kind of secret message. They didn’t toll the time nor transmit a warning. They just chimed. Out of the window we saw the whole village in motion. Bundled up, they scurried down the hill, past the one-room church, toward the marina.
Angels On High By Julie Galosy We were lying on the beach. Directly on the beach actually, couldn’t be bothered to put down a blanket or a towel. Intertwined like the lovers we were, we were content in our isolation with the soft sand supporting every curve. The night was deep blue-black and clear, with
