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Whole Lot of Shaking Going On!

Whole Lot of Shaking Going On!

People often ask me why I do what I do…writing, traveling, cruising…and truthfully, I ask myself, “Yeah, why?” The truth is they keep me out of trouble, keep me from getting bored, and I learn lots...

Stay the Course…The Adventure Continues

Stay the Course…The Adventure Continues

A Blog by Gail Cushman Last night I lost my hearing aids. The night before it was my glasses and prior to that it was my phone.  I’m on a ship going somewhere, aimed toward Europe, but I have...

The OEB

The OEB

I must be the most confused person in the world. It has to do with trash, and I don’t get why I have three trash containers and dedicate at least two hours a week to trash sorting and collection....

Cowboy Bob and His New Friend

Cowboy Bob and His New Friend

A Blog by Gail Cushman and Cowboy Bob I had on my mind this Idaho Gal who I met while back at a Super Bowl party and although she was with some big ole boy, we had a great conversation in the...

The Adventure Begins

The Adventure Begins

I’m still working on my best-selling book about online dating for widows and widowers and I thought how I can write a book on online dating if I’ve never been on an online date?  Sometimes I’m...

Blue Eyes Continued

Blue Eyes Continued

My life’s been rather topsy turvy for the past several weeks. I’m still wrestling with the alligator-sized hole in my bathroom, my best-selling book about online dating for seniors is coming along...

Hello Blue Eyes

Hello Blue Eyes

Hello, Blue Eyes! Well, I’m not really sure about that, but maybe. My drugstore cowboy has gone away and now I’m on some dating sites, checking out the eye candy, or men who think they are eye...

Montana Plumbing

Montana Plumbing

A Blog by Gail Cushman, a Cowboy Bob Blog My favorite writer of senior adventures is a gal over in Idaho, who I enjoy reading every week while I finish up my night calving chores here in the...

Passwords Will Be the Death of Me

Passwords Will Be the Death of Me

I’m working on a book about online dating and had to join a couple sites. I refuse to pay for sites, so only get whatever they offer for free, which isn’t much, a few blurred photos of men and...

Romancing the Snow

Romancing the Snow

I recently watched the Michael Douglas movie Romancing the Stone and laughed all the way through it. A little adventure, a little romance, a little bit of a nail-biter, with a great big alligator...

Eating Out in a Flyover State

Eating Out in a Flyover State

This year I’ve been spending time in Montana as well as Idaho, both lovely states, and those who call either state “fly-over states” are very wrong. They both have lots of color and character, as I...

The 700 Club

The 700 Club

On June 30 of last year, my friends and former students Aaron Phelps and Jerry Pierce, both who were in our Gooding High School plays, honored me by forming a Gail Cushman Fan Club, Wrinklybits+, on...

A Super Bowl Adventure

A Super Bowl Adventure

It’s Super Bowl Sunday and everyone I know (except me) is excited for a few hours of watching a game of which I have no interest. It seems that I was born without the football gene, and although I...

Spam Babies

Spam Babies

Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman, with thanks to Cowboy Bob From Gail:  Cowboy Bob is getting to be a regular on my blog site…gotta meet him one day! Out here at the edge of the mountains,...

Ode to My Little Toe

Ode to My Little Toe

Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Ode to My Little Toe I love doctors, yes, I do. I appreciate their knowledge, many years of schooling, and realize I am but one person passing through their...

Towel Racks and Eye Candy

Towel Racks and Eye Candy

Yesterday I had an adventure, which led to learning about water, pipes, kits, and finding testosterone-laden environments. My bathroom had a slight odor, not the usual odors that linger in a...

Balancing Nature

Balancing Nature

A Blog by Gail Cushman I’m on my annual January/February diet. The holidays take a toll on my body, and I always vow to lose weight, sometimes I do, other times, I don’t. This year is one of those...

Saying Good-bye!

Saying Good-bye!

No, I’m not leaving, but my old website WrinklyBits.com is, because today it bit the dust and now, I have a brand spankin’ new website. I hope you will take a gander; you can check it out at...

Tackling Technology

Tackling Technology

Just when I think I am as adept as Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg at using technology, somebody throws me a curve ball. My WrinklyBits.com website needed a facelift (don’t we all?) and I found a...

Cowboy Bob Returns

Cowboy Bob Returns

A Blog by Gail Cushman, with input from Cowboy Bob I received this last week…and thought you might enjoy it. Gail As I sat drinking my morning coffee and waiting for my eggs to scramble, I read an...

Double Whammy

Double Whammy

I don’t know if Idaho is on a different time schedule than the rest of the world, but since I returned home from the slow-moving state of Montana, the world has sped up and the days zoom by before I...

Hurray for Crème Brûlée

Hurray for Crème Brûlée

A Blog by Gail Cushman A lot of things changed when I reached the ripe old age of seventy, and now, five, almost six years later, I am still trying to figure out my life. My recent adventure with a...