Suprise Me

Allowing kids to name their pets leads to the most creative and special pet names. Read More

How we started our most cherished Christmas tradition! Read More

Is this retirement? I ask. Nah. Read More

At this point I had to make a split-second choice. I could stop and tell Mr. C or just let it go. Read More

We came off the Vineyard just before Labor Day, 2001 to a house in renovation chaos and our family in chaos. My in-laws had always spent the parting days of summer with us on the Vineyard, then the beginning of the fall with us in Newton, but Erv passed away the previous May. Gladys still… Read More

Hermine & Naftali,  Paris 1939 Tracing our Roots I’ve written about a family trip we made years ago tracing my roots to Charleston,  South Carolina where my father was stationed during the war and where I was born.  (See Parkchester, Celebrate Me Home) More recently we traced my husband’s roots to the German city of… Read More

Our hearts all skipped a beat, so you can imagine the child’s terror, her scream piercing the waiting area. Read More

Long before President Eisenhower built the interstate highways, my grandfather, Philip Krut, drove his family from Detroit to Cleveland. Read More

Still Life My mother Jessie was a damn good pinocle player. (See My Game Mother) But she was also a wonderful artist.   A fine arts major in college,  she later studied at New York’s renown Art Students League with the Russian-born artist Raphael Soyer celebrated for his paintings of social realism. Jessie went on to teach… Read More

Antofagasta is a northern port city in Chile. Read More