Suprise Me

The moaning whine infiltrated my nightmares for years. It became a reminder of a situation we could not ignore. Read More

Sleeping Arrangements  What’s more fun than a new kitten?  (See ASPCA) But they do require some serious training to show them who’s boss.   So the day we brought Jackie home from the ASPCA we read him the house rules –  don’t bite the hand that feeds you,  keep your paws off the house plants,  and… Read More

    Fragrant Flashbacks           I was in my teens—so many things I didn’t understand. So many aspects of life that I did because I thought I should or I did because I was compelled. And I was too close to myself for perspective, so all I could do was respond… Read More

Her mouth rounded as she faced us and said, "This is Oh--Oh--repeat after me: Read More

Hair was my rebellion! Read More

My mother was a proud FDR Democrat and preached it at home. My father’s family grew up quiet Republicans, transplanted to Detroit from St. Louis. We never got him to admit who he voted for in 1960, but he became more liberal as he aged. I was not quite four years old during the 1956… Read More

The Pink Dress None of this was supposed to happen: not finding the dress, not losing the dress, and certainly not finding it again. But that’s what did happen.   In the days before you could make online reservations, my husband used the services of a trusted travel agent for his business trips and some… Read More

My first memory of broadcast news is the image of my mother madly ironing while watching something on television that clearly angered her, the Army-McCarthy hearings. I was just a kid and thus she never explained to me why she kept watching this when it was clearly upsetting her. I guess my grandkids could wonder… Read More

"...the chimera of Security" Read More

"We must all swim in the same sea. Right?” Read More