Suprise Me

For the past 30 years give or take our family has joined our larger family in an annual trek to Florida to celebrate Thanksgiving. We grew from 7 adult children and their partners to now between 24-30 plus people joining in. Each year a different configuration with a primary group has returned year after year.… Read More

We lay in bed, listening to the wind scream around the sturdy little cabin Read More

I describe a few buttons and tokens from my past, and today’s sticker, “I Voted”. Read More

Example 1: High School, 1968. Trigonometry test. I walked by the desk of a girl I liked – not romantically, but a nice friend. I looked at her test sheet, and quietly said words to the effect: “problem 12 – divide by two.” She did, thereby earning 5 more points. My rationale: She obviously understood… Read More

Well, another year has rolled over and threatens to play dead. Congrats to all who survived to read this —you’ve lived long enough to cross into the netherworld between the second and third year of our worldwide pandemic. We haven’t lost too many friends. Most of us believe epidemiologists who deny that the wonder vaccine… Read More

Can you forgive a friend? My answer is a resounding “yes.” In fact, it goes beyond something you can do to something you must do. Read More

Problem number one: I had no boyfriend and, although I was 17, I had never been on a date. Read More

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Something pretty funny did happen IN that car, though Read More

The One Who Got Away Like all red-bloodied,  pubescent American girls of the 50s I certainly did my share of dating. In junior high school we started to pair off and with little information and probably more mis-information about the birds and the bees,  we experimented.   (My cowardly parents,  rather than having that embarrassing… Read More