Suprise Me

To me becoming an English teacher was a punchline. And yet, that is just where my college path led me. Read More

These days, the concept of a family dinner has bitten the dust. My grandkids graze rather than sitting down as a family to eat. Read More

The neighborhoods are beginning to welcome Paayme Paxaayt back into their lives. Read More

While family stories often contain a grain of truth, they are rarely entirely accurate. Read More

The basement looked bright and cheery, and the wall added a lot of color. Alas, the sentiments on the wall remain relevant today. Read More

When I bemoaned some terrible day I had had, she probably did say "there'll be days like this". . . but you'll get through them. Read More

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Before I gave Gladys and Erv Pfau their first grandchild, of unknown sex (I was 32 years old, had been married to their oldest son for 11 years but was too young to have amniocentesis, so we didn’t know if we were having a boy or girl until the moment of delivery), they gave the… Read More

. . . a violent current of events, glimpsed once and already gone past. — Marcus Aurelius Read More

As the clock hands moved from the 20th to the 21st Century, Cupid -- disguised as the Y2K Bug -- played his own hand. Read More