Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman When Cowboy and I started hanging out together, we decided having Friday night dates, without fail, interruptions, or excuses, was a good thing. At 80 + years...

Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman It was Sunday morning, the day after the Fourth of July, a day for doing nothing or having an adventure and Cowboy said, “Let’s go for a little ride after church...

Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Today is Idaho’s birthday, 136 years young, alive with beauty and progress. July 3, 1890. Take your hat off and wish her well. She is every bit as beautiful today...

Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman June 6, 1944, D-Day. It was the day that 150,000 allied troops surprised the Nazi Army as they swarmed the beaches at Normandy, France, facing the Nazi troops,...

Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Life is good! The things that make books are once again pouring out of my brain. I went for a while with a void brain, you know, nothing really going on that was...

Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman All good things must come to an end. Thirty-one days on a ship is a good thing, but we are ready to get back to normal. We have stuff going on at home, not to...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...