Jackie’s Columns

(Archived from Jackie’s writings in the Bowie Blade-News)

May 15, 2014

Taking a moment to remember my mother

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. —Victor Hugo, French novelist, poet and playwright This […]
May 8, 2014

Six steps to reduce risk of falling

I do know how . . . to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all […]
May 1, 2014

Probing probate issues in settling wills

Probate is talked about as if it were the fifth horseman of the apocalypse—Thomas Hart Hawley, The Artful Dodger’s Guide to Planning Your Estate If you’re […]
April 24, 2014

Laughter is the best medicine

My belief is that we are going to eventually discover that the most dramatic health benefits of humor are not in laughter, but in the cognitive […]