Suprise Me

Mademoiselle Moulin. Miss Windmill.   That’s what her name meant Though I’m not sure she  Taught us that or  Necessarily wanted us to know Petite But square with cropped red hair A kind of Buster Brown In peasant pants and big buttoned top Dallas not Paris was her home Wherever  She was born and grew… Read More

"I could remember beautiful kimonos and dolls and lacquered chopsticks and little girl’s tea sets that had come my way from the earlier war when Daddy was occupying Japan. But this Korean War was very disappointing." Read More

. . . it even had a breathtaking westerly view of the city promising fiery sunsets. That was all the drama I wanted. Read More

The Great Knaidel Disaster As you may know a bowl of chicken soup without knaidelach is like a day without sunshine. For the uninitiated let me explain that knaidelach is the German-derived Yiddish word for matzo balls,  and knaidel the singular.   And as I’ve said,  without knaidelach chicken soup is just, well,  soup.  (See The Matzo Ball Spelling Bee)… Read More

One day, in my late teens, at a family wedding, Mom was drinking as she usually was back then... Read More

We were put on a bus, blindfolded, and driven around country roads this way and that.  At some point, groups of four were let out of the bus, given a map, and told to find our way back.  We were all fifth graders in East Lansing public school and this was part of the curriculum… Read More

I come from a long line of family photographers. I love my family history and the information that is embedded in these old photos. I am fortunate to have some dating back many generations. I like to keep the tradition alive. The photo below is the oldest photo in my collection. It is undated, but… Read More

Although there are jingles and slogans in advertising today, I don't believe they are as memorable as the ones from our younger years. Read More

The current Ukrainian refugee crisis reminds me that my grandparents were refugees who left their families and the only homes they had known to come to America in the beginning of the 20th century. Read More

I've heard that with a true friend, absence means little. Read More