Subscribe to Blog via Email
Join 187 other subscribersCategories
- Addiction (2)
- Advance Directives (2)
- Adventures (7)
- Advocacy (198)
- Aging Sites (56)
- Animals (68)
- Architecture (14)
- Art (56)
- artificial intelligence (6)
- Books (35)
- Business (46)
- Caregiving (22)
- CCRC Info (17)
- Charity (4)
- Civic Engagement Group (14)
- Climate (32)
- Communication (58)
- Community Engagement Group (1)
- Cooking (2)
- Crime (33)
- Dance (12)
- Dementia (72)
- Disabilities (17)
- drugs (7)
- Economics (57)
- Education (58)
- end of life (54)
- energy (6)
- Entertainment (31)
- environment (95)
- Essays (125)
- Ethics (26)
- fashion (1)
- Finance (30)
- Fitness (13)
- flowers (2)
- Food (38)
- Gardening (20)
- Gay rights/essays (3)
- Geography (1)
- Gifts (3)
- Government (413)
- Grief (19)
- Guns (28)
- happiness (67)
- Health (319)
- History (166)
- Holidays (26)
- Homeless (12)
- Hospice (3)
- Housing (10)
- Humor (137)
- Immigration (31)
- In the Neighborhood (135)
- Insurance (4)
- Justice (53)
- Kindness (46)
- language (11)
- Law (91)
- literature (5)
- Love (2)
- Media (26)
- Memory Loss (3)
- Mental Health (22)
- Military (25)
- Morality (32)
- motherhood (3)
- Movies (5)
- Music (69)
- Nature (38)
- nutrition (5)
- Obituaries (8)
- On Stage (2)
- Opera (4)
- Parks (16)
- Pets (3)
- Philanthropy (13)
- Philosophy (1)
- Photography (29)
- Plants (2)
- Poetry (23)
- Politics (188)
- Poverty (10)
- prayer (6)
- protests (29)
- Race (54)
- Recycling (3)
- refugees (1)
- Religion (52)
- Remembrances (15)
- Retirement (6)
- Safety (18)
- Satire (49)
- Scams (17)
- Science and Technology (53)
- sexuality (1)
- Shopping (8)
- Singing (2)
- Skyline Info (24)
- sleep (2)
- Social justice (45)
- Space (3)
- Spiritual (5)
- Sport (6)
- Sports (28)
- Taxes (9)
- technology (8)
- terrorism (3)
- theater (5)
- Traffic (7)
- Transportation (21)
- Travel (6)
- Uncategorized (1,141)
- Vaccines (16)
- Volunteering (11)
- Voting (7)
- WACCRA (2)
- War (75)
- Women (8)
Subscribe to Blog via Email
Join 187 other subscribers
Category Archives: Uncategorized
For our Vietnam Veterans
Thanks to Bob P. USAA SECURITY ZONE Robert Peterson USAA # ending in: 5616 Fellow Member, Fifty years have passed since the final American military forces left Vietnam and our remaining prisoners of war were returned. Even after the passage of five … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
1 Comment
How many have you caught today?
Thanks to Sybil-Ann Rain was pouring down outside O’Connor’s Irish Pub…. There standing in front of a big puddle outside the pub was an old Irishman, drenched, holding a stick, with a piece of string dangling in the water. A passer-by … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off on How many have you caught today?
Daylight savings at Stonehenge
Thanks to Mary M.
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off on Daylight savings at Stonehenge
Want some good news?
Thanks to Pam P. Today’s top good news story — A hydrogen-powered commuter airplane just made a historic, record-setting flight Last week in Washington state, a 40-person airplane powered by hydrogen fuel successfully made a historic flight. The … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off on Want some good news?
Pioneers in Aging Series from the King County Library System
Here’s a link that will get you to the PIONEERS IN AGING series. The presentations are on Zoom but you will need to register separately for each talk, on Mondays at noon. April 24, Maria Kliavkoff, “Creating Compassionate Grief Communities” … Continue reading
Posted in Dementia, Grief, happiness, Health, Uncategorized
Comments Off on Pioneers in Aging Series from the King County Library System
Getting ready to procrastinate
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off on Getting ready to procrastinate
Did you get the best tow truck driver?
Ed note: My own experience was having a totally dead electrical system (blown big fuse) in my car on B2. AAA arrived and couldn’t get the problem fixed and, of course, a tow truck can’t fit into the garage. So … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off on Did you get the best tow truck driver?
Sign in Terraces – a reminder
On Feb. 22nd there were 4 COVID infected Terraces’ residents on the 8th floor and one on floor 12th. Updates will be posted when available. Masks remain required there. Suggest a N-95 if you visit. Ed note: I asked ChatGPT … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
1 Comment
We’ve finally reached our prime!
Thanks to Pam P.
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off on We’ve finally reached our prime!
Bob Dylan’s “Forever Young” – an anthem for retirement communities
Thanks to Bob P. for sending this along. Many artists have recorded this song. My favorite versions are those by Bob Dylan and the band and by Pete Seeger singing with a youth group. May God bless and keep you … Continue reading
Posted in happiness, Music, Uncategorized
Comments Off on Bob Dylan’s “Forever Young” – an anthem for retirement communities
Coming down
The Graystone tower crane is coming down currently. You might recall the crane that fell across Mercer Street in 2019. The winds became gusty while they were doing such a takedown; in a hurry, workers bypassed some stability safety measures. … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
1 Comment
Increasing use of the Skyline725 blog
Ed Note: There are now 169 subscribers to our Skyline725 blog. You can see some interesting blips in usage (note the COVID onset increase in 2020). Also, there’s an astounding increase in “hits” over the last few months. Recently, individuals … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Uncategorized
2 Comments