Let me introduce you to Nina and Alvin. Nina, who is 77, and Alvin, who is 87, have been married for 57 years. I have known them for 56 of them.
Nina and Alvin are not their real names, but when I told them I was going to write a few stories about them, they requested aliases.
“Please call us Nina and Alvin.”
Nina and Alvin it is.
In the last year of his life, my dad talked a lot about parachuting, something he had done as a young man. He told us repeatedly, “I just want to do one last jump.” We weren’t exactly sure how many jumps he had done in his lifetime, as the number seemed to grow over the […]
If you read my recent story about my mom, Nina (read: https://midlifebloomer.com/bong-boy/), you’d know that she is living her best life as a one-woman neighborhood watch. Nina continues to keep tabs on BongBoy as she peers at him through the front shutters. He is usually parked right across the street so they see each other
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When my mom, Nina, and I walk, we generally talk about Nina’s gal pals, Barbara, Carol and Carol Jo. These are intricate tales that involve not just Barbara and the Carols, but every relative, friend, and living human associated with these gals. I need cliff notes to follow. Lately, however, Nina has found someone new
Alvin has done a lot in his 86 years. He’s skydived in Alaska, hunted crocodiles in Florida and ran with the bulls in Pamplona. But there’s one thing he’s NEVER done. Until last week. “Did you hear what your dad did?” Nina asked me, her eyes big. “No, what?” “Well, he was going to McDonald’s
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Let me introduce you to Nina and Alvin. Nina, who is (almost) 76 and Alvin, who is 86 have been married for 56 years. I have known them for 55 of them. I am their daughter. Nina and Alvin are not their real names but when I told them I was going to write a
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Let me introduce you to Nina and Alvin. Nina, who is 75, and Alvin, who is 85, have been married for 55 years. I have known them for 54 of them. I am their daughter. Nina and Alvin are not their real names, but when I told them I was going to write a few
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Let me introduce you to Nina and Alvin. Nina, who is 74, and Alvin, who is 84, have been married for 54 years. I have known them for 53 of them. I am their daughter. Nina and Alvin are not their real names, but when I told them I was going to write a few
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Let me introduce you to Nina and Alvin. Nina, who is 74 and Alvin, who is 84 have been married for 54 years. I have known them for 53 of them. I am their daughter. Nina and Alvin are not their real names but when I told them I was going to write a few
Nina may seem like the grandmother next door, but there is another side to her. Nina is a hard-core, in your face, straight-up pusher. Oxycodone? Heroine? Opioids? Bigger. Grisham. King. Clancy. It started about 30 years ago. Back then, it was the small stuff, mostly newspaper articles: A heartwarming Erma Bombeck story. A cautionary tale