Suprise Me

My Favorite Things I confess I’m not very sentimental.  (See With This Ring and Baby Shoes) But there are some things I own that are older than I am and that I treasure. One is certainly the brass dinner bell my grandmother rang to call the guests to meals at her small Catskill hotel.  (See My Heart Remembers… Read More

What I find I keep is my memories, my dreams and sometimes things that I wish I could forget. ....I keep an old bird's nest that I found with a small feather resting in it. Read More

If the house is ever on fire I pray these make it out safely. Admittedly unprepossessing, they are my childhood stuffed toys. The doll I named Margie after my older cousin whom I thought the most beautiful of girls, and Rory, cause elephants roar, get it? Um, right. Mom made the little dress for Margie… Read More

Michigan seems like a dream to me now. —Simon & Garfunkel, "America" Read More

In the summer of 1978, I took a group of students to Taiwan for a work-study trip.  Among them was an older female ROTC grad with the officer’s rank of Second Lieutenant.  With me posing as her husband, we entered the American Military”s Officers Club. A hub for the social and political elite, its members… Read More

This Mother’s Day, I salute my mother and all who understand and appreciate the importance and challenges of what she called being “just a housewife.” Read More

We did not relish listening to praise and platitudes about a woman who was, to put it charitably, hard to get along with. Read More

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I know my attitude is wrong. People are entitled to jury trials, and I would probably be a good juror (except for Trump). Read More

In so many ways, the senior living experience was a reincarnation of middle school. Men caused major mean girl issues, even for women in their eighties and nineties. Read More