Baby Boomers or Wrinkly Bits

Baby Boomers or Wrinkly Bits

People often ask how I came up with the name “Wrinkly Bits.” It’s an odd name for a book series but it isn’t really complicated. I was born in 1946, a year after World War II ended, one of the first baby boomers. The term baby boomer is usually defined as those born...
Leaps and Bounds

Leaps and Bounds

Boise is growing by leaps and bounds and with it, big changes are happening. I have always said, “Change is good,” because generally good things emerge with change, but now I’m not so sure. The acres of corn and other grain that grew in fields in and around Boise now...
Busy Busy Busy

Busy Busy Busy

  This week my life took a new direction, which can be good, but I’m puzzling a bit about this twist and turn. It seems my life is not my own, which makes me cranky. I’m used to sitting in front of my window watching my neighbors stroll by, some with dogs, some with...
Wrinkly Giggles

Wrinkly Giggles

  A Blog by Gail Cushman   As you know, my grandmother often said, “There’s a bus leaving tomorrow, I might as well be on it,” so I got on a bus this week. Accompanied by a dozen other “women of a certain age,” except for one, who was about age forty,...