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Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman and Cowboy Bob We’ve been on this voyage for about two weeks, time enough to do a lot of things, like learning the difference between port and starboard, bow and...
Horsing Around
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman When Cowboy suggested that we take an excursion that included riding a horse, I started laughing. “Ride a horse,” I laughed, “you must be kidding. I’ve ridden a...
Eating Our Way Around South America
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail I love to cruise. Being on the water is second only had making love, and that’s the truth, but don’t tell my kids! We are on the Oosterdam, one of Holland America’s “dam”...
Sail Away 3-10-26
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman We are on the ship! Hurray! I love being on a ship, looking out over the sea, hoping to see some sea creature, which hardly ever happens, but nevertheless, one...
Cowboy and Miss Gail Tango in Buenos Aires
Wrinkly Bits March 7, 2026 We went to a Tango dinner/dance tonight...what fun! And a nice young lady took pictures of us, all decked out to Tango, but wouldn't you know it, she disappeared before...
Overwhelmed
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Oh my gosh, I seldom get overwhelmed, but this week has blown me apart! Relatives, friends, and FB friends wished me a happy birthday, and I lost track of whom I...
retired educator writes under pen name
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Paris is for lovers: Finding love after loss
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What a Ride
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Originally posted 2/25/26 I’ve been dreading this week for a bunch of years. I’m turning 80, meaning I’m an octogenarian, in other words, damn old, on Thursday....
How widows & widowers find love online
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Chip and Dale Meet Their Rightly Demise
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Originally posted 2/18/26 Mice are such cute little critters, filled with evil and nastiness not to mention disease and disaster. With the warm weather we have...
This Cannot Be Good
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Originally posted 2/4/26 Cody has been dragging his usual sort-of-good-natured self since we returned home from parts unknown, as he calls them. We thought he had...
Nothing Important
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Originally posted 11/16/21 This week I heard from an old friend and asked him why he was avoiding social media these days. In his younger days he jabbered all the...
Planes, Ships, and Sand
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Originally posted 1/28/26 We are still in St. Maarten’s, a lovely island that is home to two different governing bodies, (France and Holland) cultures, languages,...
Freda the Foot Takes on St. Maartens
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Originally posted 1/25/26 The Cowboy and I were stopped at a light in Billings, headed for what I hoped would be the final recheck of Freda the Foot. It was at...
What to Write About Today
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Originally posted 1/17/26 I’ve been writing Wrinkly Bits blogs for almost five years. I started writing it in 2021, I think, or maybe 2022. I forget. It was...
Something to Write Home About
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman and Cowboy Bob Originally posted 1/5/26 We are on the road again, this time to California for a solemn event, a funeral, not an adventure. One day last week I...
Where’s My Cute Shirt?
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Originally posted 12/30/25 I’ve kinda gotten into the rhythm of Montana State football. Cowboy and I have attended several football games (thank you, Riley) and...
Twelve Days of Christmas
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Cowboy Bob and Cowgirl Gail “Pa rum pum pum pum.” Whew, the drums are beating. On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, twelve drummers drumming. “Pa...
Eleven Pipers Piping?
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman I’ve had my eye on Cowboy, watching for all those presents. We now have a pear forest which might be a good idea or not, depending on how hardy pear trees are. We...
Day 10 Ten Lords a-Leaping
Wrinkly Bits A Blog/Poem by Gail Cushman Ten Lords a-Leaping. Fancy that. Montana has no lords. Period. They have cowboys, who are Lords of the Range. So, I thought I should write a poem about...
Day 9: Nine Ladies Dancing
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman I am not a dancer, but then, I have a lot of issues. I have clumsy feet, a tin ear, a non-working sniffer, not to mention being directionally challenged, but...