Suprise Me

His cardinal rule: to the outside world we must always present a united front. Read More

What is it about a friendship that stays with you forever, even when your communication is reduced to an annual letter and a few emails and phone calls? Read More

Sadly, many people who need care and supervision end up as part of the homeless population living in the streets. Read More

I was always a good student, a striver, a high achiever, I got straight A’s. Until it came to penmanship. There I fell apart and got C’s. My second grade teacher, responsible for teaching cursive, called my mother in, bemoaning my lack of manual dexterity and told my mother to teach me knitting as a… Read More

His appetite insured we had no pesky leftovers cluttering the fridge! Read More

As my mother descended into dementia, her letters stopped, and we kept in touch through phone calls, increasingly with my father alone.  By the time my mother died, he had become my confidante and mutual support system. Read More

As sexist as it is, I do miss the old Marshall Field’s mantra, “Give the lady what she wants.” Read More

I loved being a lawyer. I can't think of any other career I would have rather had. Except for being a rock 'n' roll singer - that would have been the best. Read More

My younger son was in nursery school at the time and his best buddy, Dugan, thought her name was “Fleabee”, to the amusement of us all. Read More

The story is about my father, who was born in 1909, got his bachelor's degree from Rutgers University in 1928 or '29, went to work as a pharmacist in the family drugstore, but wanted to be a doctor, Read More