Suprise Me

Risking covid to save the nation. Wish me luck! Read More

I was one of five children growing up. Larry was about four years older than I was, Ricky four years younger, and Keith and Kevin six years younger. So in our family hierarchy, Ricky and I shared billing as middle children. Read More

Joe's hat sported not only a Nixon-Agnew campaign button but, beside it, a Goldwater button from four years earlier. Read More

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This damn pandemic has turned me into an extension of my computer which has taken the form of my cellphone. Honestly, I can’t stand it! I have it in my hand constantly. Can’t eat without it. Watch tv without it. Go to the bathroom without it. I go into a near panic if I realize… Read More

Somehow, we turned into a street and found ourselves in Old Dacca, where we clearly didn’t belong.  Read More

applying for med school while female Read More

My mother started making hats right around the time I became a teenager. This was not coincidental, I believe. It was a good time for her  to find something to do. Not the happiest of stay-at-home mothers in the 1960s, she desperately needed an outlet. First she helped form a singing group of PTA mothers.… Read More

A normal day shattered by disaster. Read More

My worst dreams have become a reality as we struggle through these endless days of #stayathome. Read More