Suprise Me

Baby Shoes I’m not the sentimental type,  but when our son outgrew his first pair of baby shoes I decided to have them bronzed – separately. I gave one shoe to my mother-in-law who was then a widow,  and the other shoe to my parents. Years later when my mother-in-law died we took back her… Read More

For the first and only time, I saw humans flying, literally levitating around the room, so graceful that their bare feet never made a sound when they landed. Read More

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I hoped my granddaughter and her peers would embrace the importance of sisterhood before the Mean Girl games of middle school took over. Read More

I think my mom was ahead of her time, a real ‘Granola.’ She didn’t look anything like a hippie, but she read religiously things like Prevention Magazine and  books on natural ways to have healthy children. We ate piles of vitamins and supplements. From a very young age I knew what each one was and… Read More

That is what I thought of with the Retrospect Topic ‘Changing Times’ – not the clocks to be moved forward but the 1960s and then beyond. I was 14 when Bob Dylan’s song ‘The Times They Are A-Changin’ was first released and it foretold for me, it prepared me for, my coming of age challenges… Read More

We looked at each other with relief and amazement.  Read More

I tried retirement once, and it didn't hold. Maybe the second will be more successful? Read More

As we all take a well-deserved break for the month of January to reflect on the future of Retrospect, thanks to all who read and commented as I responded every week to the question, “What’s Your Story?” Read More

"...one band, one club, and one gig." Read More