Lyn Jensen

My Recycled Life — Backyard Avocados

I’ve heard that avocado harvesting season here lasts roughly from September to December, but January is almost over and I’m…

4 years ago

Telemarketing Preys on Seniors

My mother is still alive on countless telemarketing lists, whether from robocalls or human salespersons. It’s bad enough I get…

4 years ago

My Recycled Life: Freecycle in Your Neighborhood

When I moved into my mother’s house, supplies for multiple cats were cramming available space and I only needed enough…

4 years ago

Take Your Metal to a Scrap Yard

I miss Alameda Recycling in Wilmington, where for nearly three decades I took whatever scrap metal or e-waste I wanted…

4 years ago

Abortion-ban Horse is Out of Constitution’s Barn

Let the mansplaining begin, from the governor of Texas on down, about how girls have to understand, it’s not like…

4 years ago

Stop Procrastinating About Estate Planning

Getting my mother to stop procrastinating and make a decision, any decision, about her estate, was a “someday” task for…

4 years ago

Cash Instead of Trash

My mother watched in horror what happened after the elderly couple that lived next door to her died within months…

4 years ago

King Tut’s Tomb

My mother and father were both still alive when I started packing the contents of their homes, so my plans…

4 years ago