Suprise Me

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead Read More

Mother and Child,  Mary Cassatt 1897 Going Back to Work I was working as a high school librarian,   with an easy 20 minute highway commute,  when I discovered  I was pregnant.   I happily applied for a maternity leave and told my principal I’d be leaving a week or two before my mid-March due… Read More

Good Neighbors – for David K  Writing once about the passage of time, I urged you to seize the day.   (See Time and the Taxi Man) I thought of those words recently at the funeral of our neighbor David K who had died suddenly the week before.  For decades my husband Danny and I… Read More

The day I almost wasn't, but almost doesn't count. Read More

Some of the most loving people I have ever seen are the parents and caregivers in waiting rooms of speech pathologists, occupational therapists, play therapists, physical therapists, and almost any place that works with children who have disabilities. Read More

Sometimes, as in the case of my high school math class, time stopped. Read More

Instead of glancing at their cellphones or GameBoys while walking around the streets, everyone would be furtively eyeing the trees, searching for evidence of that crevice or fissure that might hold a secret treasure. Read More

Charlevoix. For five glorious summers my family stayed at the Scutt Guest House in the resort town on Lake Michigan for a few weeks in August, beginning in 1959. I believe it became quite a well-heeled resort, but at the time it felt cozy and lots of our friends and family from Detroit also made… Read More

Wondering where those demons of the night are coming from? Check your pill box. Read More

In violation of the law, the ads were "segregated" ... Someone had to do something, we agreed, but what? Read More