Life After 55

By Michele Bazan Reed   Email: bazanreed@hotmail.com Last issue, I sang the praises of cursive handwriting and the importance of writing

By Michele Bazan Reed Email: bazanreed@hotmail.comEmail: com ‘Novelists aren’t the only ones saying writing with pen and paper is good

By Michele Bazan Reed  We’re coming into my favorite season. Oh sure, I love a Central New York fall with

By Michele Bazan Reed Email: bazanreed@hotmail.com Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.”  As families begin

By Michele Bazan Reed Email: bazanreed@hotmail.com One day last winter, I drove to a lookout spot where tourists and locals

By Michele Bazan Reed Email: bazanreed@hotmail.com There’s an old song, “Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places.” I don’t

By Michele Bazan Reed Email: bazanreed@hotmail.com The day after Christmas, Boxing Day, I settled in to enjoy one of my

By Michele Reed Email: bazanreed@hotmail.com In the hallway of the old family home, where my son, Mike, now lives, there’s

By Michele Reed Email: bazanreed@hotmail.com Photos by Bill Reed  There’s a thing going around on Facebook. It’s a list of

By Michele Reed bazanreed@hotmail.com Photos by Bill Reed In April I lost my best friend of nearly 50 years and