Suprise Me

Behind the Mask Like all families,  ours at times has been an unwilling friend to darkness.   A medical officer in WW II,  my dad served on troop ships bringing soldiers to theaters of war and returning with the wounded and the dead,  and on a Stateside army base during those dark days I was… Read More

My grandmother was quite a woman. A gardener, a fantastic cook, a healer, and for this granddaughter – the best grandmother ever. I felt she died too young for my development into womanhood in our family. I was 16, she was in her 70’s. I missed her immensely and to this day when I garden I… Read More

September 2, 1973 We began our honeymoon with an afterparty at a nearby restaurant. Several of our friends came along from the wedding; we shared some additional toasts at the bar before my brand-new husband and I drove to the airport to begin our long weekend away. Times being what they were, what with my… Read More

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This is more about books and reading and being a weird little kid than about any single book. I was a nerd. A geek. A prototypical Poindexter (a nickname I was actually saddled with for a time). Books didn’t beat me up the way other kids did, so I loved them with all my heart… Read More

I wish our country’s leadership and values embodied less of Soupy Sales and more of Fred Rogers these days. Read More

Memorial Day to the Fourth of July, a good length of time for a vacation Read More

We lived a half hour from Manhattan, and theatre tickets were cheap in those days - less than a movie costs now! Read More

UNiversity, BUtterfield, KLondike, WOodward, YUkon—those old phone numbers were so easy to remember. Read More

We Lived outside the box! Read More