by Patricia Hawkins | Oct 21, 2022
“Over-the-counter hearing aids are finally hitting store shelves this week, following approval in August by the Food and Drug Administration. Instead of paying several thousand dollars for a pair of doctor-prescribed hearing aids, consumers now can save money by...
by Patricia Hawkins | Jun 10, 2022
It’s not your usual couples activity, by any means. “Let’s get our blood pressure taken,” my husband Brian proposed when he saw the table for free health screenings set up in the grocery store several months ago. I should have known something was up. He said...
by Patricia Hawkins | May 10, 2022
We’d had the puppy for two months when I realized we were in deep. Our little rescue hound-dog mix named Beastie was on our back balcony, and her floppy ears began twitching when she heard a bird singing. My husband and I could see the cardinal in the tree. “That’s a...
by Patricia Hawkins | Nov 17, 2021
I remember a line from my younger years, about how men don’t suffer from PMS once a month; they suffer from it all month, every month. Now that we’re not worried about PMS and periods any longer, we could probably make a similar joke about men going...
by Patricia Hawkins | Mar 10, 2021
A good friend phoned today with two pieces of news. She was distraught because her husband had called her a “shit head” during a fight over whether she should visit a friend (in a COVID careful way) for a milestone birthday. The other news was better: Her...
