Jun 08, 2023 by Ruth F Stevens

My mother’s death in 2014 ended her decades of close friendship with Dorothy (“Dotty”) Licht. But I was fortunate enough to enjoy a long-distance correspondence with this amazing lady in the years that followed.

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Mar 01, 2021 by Ruth F Stevens

On a cloudy January afternoon as I drove up Hawthorne Boulevard through the Palos Verdes Peninsula, I heard the good news on my car radio: Los Angeles County had just opened up its COVID vaccination program to residents in my age group.

Then came the challenging part.

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Dec 31, 2020 by Ruth F Stevens

I know, I know, you’ve heard it all before… Next year, things will get better. They can’t get any worse, right?

That’s what we all used to believe. But we thought we knew so much a decade ago, back in 2020, during the early days of The Sickness. In the words of Bob Dylan, “I was so much older then—I’m younger than that now.” If only.

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Jul 25, 2020 by Ruth F Stevens

When I set out to write this article, my plan was to call it “Ten Things I’m Grateful for,” which has a much nicer ring to it…but I couldn’t come up with ten. Where this damned virus is concerned, it’s not easy to find those silver linings inside the cloud.

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Dec 26, 2019 by Ruth F Stevens

When people hear that I had a parent who suffered from Alzheimer’s Disease, they sometimes ask, “After they’re gone, how long does it take to remember them the way they were before?”

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