Author: Nancy Olney

As much as I love to write (and I am sure you love to read) about my fabulous kitty cat Willy and my ongoing old-age sagas, I need to talk to you about a more important subject. I feel we, the membership of the VAE, have come to a crossroad; basically, in a few words, the club needs…

Driving to get groceries the other day, I met with two motorcycles, the 3-wheel kind. Maybe they call them tricycles; not sure, but right away I thought they are a safety thing for people “my age”! They certainly do not look as cool as a two-wheeled motorcycle but guess there are things that we must give…

If you are reading this article, Mother’s Day will have come and gone, so it will have to be a “Women Day” piece.  As I was taking care of the left-over ham from Easter, I was thinking about what I paid for it and how many meals I will have gotten from it. I do…

Come gather ‘round people Wherever you roam And admit that the watersAround you have grown… I will let you google the rest of the song if you wish. It wasn’t really the subject I had planned on reporting.  It is February 5, 2025, today, and my birthday. About 3:15 am, I turned 77! I will never be 76…

The other day I was thinking about what had to be done before the first snow started to come down and realized that the jobs had changed over the years.  Having grown up on a farm, it seemed we were always “getting ready for winter.”  I will not go into all the farm chores but…

We got our first “family” pet when our sons were in third and fifth grade. It had been brought to our attention many times that it would be wonderful to have a pet, and of course listened to all the promises of care and all they would do to make it a “no work” situation…

Hopefully, I haven’t been spending too much time in my writings on the fact that I am aging, and it seems to be at a much faster rate than I had ever thought possible in my “younger” years. But as they say, “It is what it is,” and so here I go again. Probably a…

Maybe it was the fact that the year turned to 2024 and we were inundated with all the happenings of 2023 that got me thinking of my age. I admit, I dwell on it more than I did 40 years ago, but do not think I obsess about it, knowing full well I cannot do…

I don’t follow baseball anymore but have been curious about what people think of the new rules like timing for the pitcher, etc., been curious about what people think of the making the game shorter and, I guess, less boring. I heard one father say that he saves up to take his son to a…

I don’t know if others about my age have moments when they think back and kind of scroll through their life and have some regrets about what they did or didn’t do, but I have. I think it was Robert Frost who wrote about coming to a fork in the road and “taking the less…