Theatre News from Community Circle Players in SaddleBrooke Shawne Cryderman As Shakespeare’s Falstaff observed, discretion is the better part of valor—and so he lived to fight another day. That is not an exact quote but it sums up Community Circle Players’ decision to abandon, for now, its plans to present a show this November. Not…
Jo Ann Ellison On August 14, 2020, GLAAS member Roberta Dunn shared her experience as an LGBT-rights activist and transgender woman at a special members-only Zoom event. Roberta and her wife of 36 years moved to SaddleBrooke last year from Charlotte, N.C. She retired to Charlotte after a forty-year career in the computer/telecommunications industry. She…
Eileen J. Snearly With all golf events and luncheons canceled, the MountainView Preserve Lady Niners Niners do get out for golf. What a relief to be able to see our golf friends and yet maintain social distancing. Pictures were taken recently when golfers arrived at the Preserve Golf Pro Shop.
Stuart Watkins What is an African sulcata tortoise you may wonder? Well, most people call them tortoises, or big turtles. Angela Burton raises them, and does other things that keep her busy, such as hiking, making her own lip balm, her own natural deodorant, and teaching an on-line art-mixer course. Angela started NatureKind seeking a natural-based…
Mary Jo Bellner Swartzberg It was time to get my hair—ahem—colored again. So, I visited a nearby salon. When I walked into the cramped salon the owner was busily tending to a customer. He casually turned to me, sized me up and down, and said: “Do I know you?” I said that he had given…
Becky Kueker My daughter once said to me, “Mom you are not like other women.” I was so pleased it took me a while to understand she did not mean it in a good way. I was always a rule breaker. I grew up in an era where there were a much more defined set…
Stuart Watkins After driving into my garage, shutting the garage door, asking my wife if she had checked the mail, and when she had not, I went out the front door. To my surprise I saw this poor lizard stuck underneath our garage door! Of course, I called my wife, went in to get my…
David Zapatka The poll results of the July WOTM column regarding the question, “Is it ‘It’s a few more miles still’ or is it ‘It’s a few more miles yet?’” posed by reader Sally Teusch are in and they are very interesting. There was one vote for ‘still,’ three votes for ‘yet,’ and four votes…
Dick Cook and James Wetegrove Why join the Saddlebrooke One Men’s Niners? 1. To golf in a friendly setting with new or existing friends 2. To learn more about the game in an easy 9-hole format 3. To experience competitive fun with other golfers in Community Who can join? Membership in the SaddleBrooke Men’s Nine Hole…
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Can Massage Help? Heidi Overman, LMT #MT-24997 What is Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS)? As defined by Ruth Werner’s A Massage Therapist’s Guide to Pathology, CTS is a set of signs and symptoms brought about by the entrapment of the median nerve between the carpal bones of the wrist and the transverse carpal ligament…