Suprise Me

Play It Again, Sam Rewatchable?  Round up the usual suspects. Retroflash / 6 Words – Dana Susan Lehrman Read More

After my first husband left me, I thought I would die of the pain. I was wrong. Read More

The last time I wore a hat, aside from ugly winter wear on below zero days, was the beret in my featured image. Read More

There was something about cramming into a small booth that made the old photo booths special. Read More

Laughing through tears, I can tell you, is really a thing. Read More

Stressed, unhappy parents create stressed, unhappy children. Read More

This upset me terribly. Read More

Imagine my surprise when my dear mother-in-law called, saying she wanted me to host Thanksgiving in 1982. I had never cooked a meal like that before and at the time we lived in a 5th floor walk-up, rented condo, left partially furnished by the owner, with some of our own furniture strewn about. It had… Read More

Parents, we’ve all had these moments, right? Right?? One day my daughter invited a friend from school over to play.  I’ll call this friend Jane, because that is her name. Jane was eight or nine–a year older than my daughter–and since her mom and I were friends, the girls had spent time together before, sometimes… Read More

My second advantage , I am certain, was that they had concluded I had gone completely crazy ... Read More