Suprise Me

I like history. When I read (now I have eye problems that limits my ability), I read biography. So my husband and I always wanted to tour Normandy and better understand what happened during the beginning of the liberation of Europe. The Americanization of Emily is one of my favorite movies and we agree that the… Read More

Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow was Bill Clinton's campaign song. Read More

With a sigh, I gave the earring up for lost but kept its mate as a memento. Read More

Photo booths were great in the days when we didn't have cameras - black and white photo strips preserved our memories. Read More

There were games and water balloon fights. I think of scenes from The Music Man, when I remember those holiday picnics. Read More

My dad, with his finger forever off the pulse of the times. But the chaos of the late 1960s and early 1970s showed up in our food, even if most of the turmoil of the times failed to register in the southern Nevada desert we called home. Read More

I graduated from Brandeis in 1974 with a degree in Theatre Arts and a Massachusetts Secondary Teaching Certificate. I also got married a month after graduating. Dan, my new husband, worked at a small software company in Waltham, MA called SofTech, but would start graduate school in the fall, though he continued to work part… Read More

Many years ago when I was a very young man, I was in Mexico fulfilling what was then one of my greatest bucket list dreams; trying to catch a giant Marlin. As a boy, many times while laying in the tall cool green grass waiting for a Rainbow trout to take my bait I closed… Read More

Precious  In 2010 the Oscar for Best Picture went to The Hurt Locker,  but in my book the award should have gone to one I was glad to watch a second time –  the nominated film Precious.   The film,  based on the young adult novel Push,  starred the amazing Gabourey Sidibe as Precious the… Read More

These were a few of our favorite things: “Gortons” [grotons–ground pork pate] “Tourquee” [tortiere–pork pie] “Boudin” [blood sausage–really yuk] “Crepes” [Memere’s fat crispy pancakes cooked in light oil–the recipe faded away with her Alzheimer’s] “Rhubarb stalks dipped in a cup of sugar” [great for walking around with] “Pepper steaks” [thin beef grilled with sautéed onions and… Read More