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...
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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...
On the Second Day of Christmas
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Day One, he gave me a partridge in a pear tree. How lucky for me! What in the world could he give me that would top that, I thought to myself. I looked...
A Blog by Perky Gail Cushman
Wrinkly Bits Originally posted 11/16/25 A few days ago, the Cowboy called me “perky.” After five weeks in a cast on my foot and two more weeks wearing a black boot with more Velcro than I had known...
Free at Last
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Originally posted 11/2/25 Free at last! Free at last! Cast is off and I’m free at last. My doc is a genius. He took a sharp knife, three staples, and slapped on a...
A Bit of Nostalgia…School lunches
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Originally posted 10/19/25 During my extended time with the various school systems, I had the opportunity to eat a lot of school lunches. I was a student for 12...
Who is Miss Gail?
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by AI, censored by Gail Cushman Originally posted 10/1/25 Last night I was browsing on my iPhone, enjoying the comments people had made about my Hunter’s Orange cast and other...
Sunday Road Trips
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Originally posted 9/16/25 When I was a child, one of the best things we did as a family was to go on our Sunday afternoon Road Trips. First, we went to church,...
Notre Dame: A Job Well Done
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman and Cowboy Bob Originally posted 9/2/25 One of the main reasons we wanted to come to Paris this year was to see Notre Dame, after its rebuild from the fire six...
Under-thinking My New Year’s Resolutions
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman I’ve been thinking all week about my New Year’s Resolutions. I always make them, and once in a while I keep them, for at least ten minutes, maybe...
O Canada
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Last Sunday I got up, donned my Sunday duds to go to church, and noticed the truck was in the front of the house, running. “What’s going on? Church isn’t for...
It’s the Little Things That Count
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Toes. How much littler do you get than toes? We don’t pay much attention to them because they aren’t obvious, mostly covered up with socks and shoes and boots and...
Post-Thanksgiving Blues
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Thanksgiving was ten days ago and the turkey is almost gone. We cooked two turkeys, both home-grown, donated by Cowboy’s son, and they were delicious. One brined...
Relaxation, Cody’s Way
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman We were watching a little TV last night and somehow, I managed to wrestle the remote control from the Cowboy. Wrestling with him is always fun and this time I...





















