Author Archives: Mona Sides-Smith

About Mona Sides-Smith

In her numerous employment opportunities, Mona Sides-Smith has worked in the Pentagon, built up and sold successful small businesses, lead retreats in a few countries, became a mother and wife(s), published a weekly newspaper, and spent twenty years as a family counselor. She says she is now a workaholic retiree living in Memphis, Tennessee, but has a Bartlett zip code, which appears to be the result of attention deficit mapping.

IT’S ABOUT STORE-BOUGHT BODY PARTS By Mona Sides-Smith

Posted on January 9, 2015 by Mona Sides-Smith

Mind you, I’m not ungrateful for store-bought body parts; it’s just that they are such a drag on my mind. It’s been going on for years and I’m about to put an end to it. My boobs are hanging down … Continue reading →

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IT’S ABOUT NOT CARING MUCH By Mona Sides-Smith

Posted on November 13, 2014 by Mona Sides-Smith

Relatives? I don’t much get involved with what most of my relatives do, and vice-versa. I seldom see most of my family of origin and, when we do get together, we say how nice it is to see each other, … Continue reading →

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It’s About Marriage by Mona Sides-Smith

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Mona Sides-Smith

I don’t know why I keep getting married. I got married in my twenties. I got married when I was pushing seventy. And I got married several times in between.  You’d think a person would learn not to keep doing … Continue reading →

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IT’S ABOUT THE YARD by Mona Sides-Smith

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Mona Sides-Smith

June 1, 2014 My yard is a paradise for possums, birds, coons and squirrels. And me. I have a mulch pile in my front yard. The mulch pile is snuggled under the most beautiful magnolia tree anywhere within a few … Continue reading →

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IT’S ALL ABOUT PIANO LESSONS by MONA SIDES-SMITH

Posted on June 12, 2014 by Mona Sides-Smith

MAY 6, 2014 I am a dropout from the senior citizens piano lessons class. I didn’t exactly drop out. I was dropped out. Not for my inability to learn how to play the piano, but for my ability to play … Continue reading →

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About Mona – The Thing About Aging By Mona Sides-Smith

Posted on May 20, 2014 by Mona Sides-Smith

About Mona We’re excited to bring a little prickly wit to our readers with the musings of a new contributor. With sardonic humor, our friend and writer Mona Sides Smith will take an irreverent look at the joys and woes … Continue reading →

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