Suprise Me

Ric was a seasoned picker. He taught me to keep an eye out for those special items that spoke to me. Read More

How we started our most cherished Christmas tradition! Read More

1963 was the year I became my own person with my own values. Read More

They say man plans and God laughs. On the big day, it rained steadily from sun up to midnight. Read More

My Day in the ER Recently I spend practically a whole day in the ER. I had a Zoom book club meeting the day before and was eating a tuna fish sandwich as I sat at my computer talking with my book club friends. I made the tuna salad myself and in fact my husband… Read More

After Mother’s sister Ann died in Detroit, it became clear she needed to live close to one of her children. Rick and I each showed her a few continuing care communities close to us (my brother lives in Cincinnati) and she chose to come to the Boston area in 1995 at the age of 82.… Read More

What I do remember from my early teen years is being the Den Mother for my youngest brother’s Cub Scout pack. Read More

All time is fluid in human experience. At times, the minutes, hours, years fly by. At other times, they drag down the road like zombies. In our search for logic and meaning we measure time — from the billions of years it takes for light to travel from a distant galaxy to the time it… Read More

Story from 2017, moved to this prompt in response to John's story Great Performances. Read More

As an officer of our temple, Dad set my wedding day as June 16, 1974. “Really?” I queried, ” That will be your 28th anniversary. Do you want to share yours with me?” He responded affirmatively and the date was set. My parents were a post-war couple. They barely knew one another and married in… Read More