Suprise Me

Here are a few manners I didn’t pass on to my kids … Read More

Any half-century anniversary sparks big questions. Even once inattentive high school history students are nudged into a perspective more sweeping than personal status and sentimental relations with peers. Too, self-important Boomers have always had a habit of “scaling up” the primarily personal into generational (and national) significance. Read More

Stop, drop and roll is what the tell you when you're in a fire, but what's the right thing to do when you're under fire by a long time friend who knows just a bit more about money than you...and isn't afraid to tell you! This happened today. Read More

Parking, never a problem for me at college, but work at Lockheed was different. Read More

"We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon." Read More

The more I got to know my aunts the more I appreciated the ways they’d survived a childhood that, for all its adventure and exoticism, was marked by long separations and displacement. Read More

Orders lifted, may still stay home. Read More

Superstitions are heightened during stressful times, for example, when expecting a child. Read More

Virtual Seder like it's 1999. Read More

I didn't have a lot of friends in middle school, so I might have run out of friends to target for passing the letters along. Read More