agebuzz Guest Blogger: Alice Herb

How I Spent Election Day By Alice Herb   Feeling increasing anxiety as I approached Election Day, I decided to volunteer as an Election Worker for two reasons. I thought that if I were busy all day on November 3rd, I could avoid the high tension of waiting for results….

Anxiety – A Perpetual State of Mind Now? By Alice Herb   This past year has been exceptionally anxiety-provoking for me. Two of my closest family members had serious medical issues that seemed to go on interminably. But now those worries have subsided- and yet I realize that I am…

Will This Never End? Maybe We Can Turn To Something New By Alice Herb   I’ve been silent on my blog for many weeks now.  Words fail me.  Not because I’ve lost them (though I search for a lot of them and usually find them.) Rather, there is little left…

Haircut, Pedicure, Now What? By Alice Herb   Hair cut done! Pedicure done! 4th of July at my beach house, wonderful!  But now what?    Stupid question?  No- all the pleasure I felt at being myself again did not keep me from knowing the crisis hadn’t ended. I’m still having…

Your Call Is Important To Us By Alice Herb   I have a number of pet peeves. Friends and family visibly shrink from me when they hear that I’m once again on the warpath to eliminate the object of my wrath. That object right now (and for some time) is…

The Lockdown: What I Love & Hate by Alice Herb   Right now we are several months into “the lockdown.” I can’t actually say I really “love” anything in this pandemic lockdown but some feelings come pretty close. I’ve had time to think about what I’ve enjoyed about the isolation…