Suprise Me

I look at this photo and sigh. This was my family’s Thanksgiving table seventy years ago. I’m the second child on the left, sharing a meal with two generations now gone. In fact, my dear cousin sitting directly across from me has also died. But the tradition of sharing a meal with folks you love… Read More

There isn’t room for one more pair of shoes in my closet. But fortunately I haven’t been out shopping for shoes for a while. You could say it’s thanks to the pandemic. But really? It’s because my feet hurt. And my back hurts. I look at all those beautiful shoes sitting there–the perfect navy blue… Read More

Neither rain, snow, sleet, nor gloom of night was going to deter us from our planned movie date. Read More

In this cartoon, all the jurors are looking at their phones. Is that how it started, these shorter and shorter attention spans? Read More

Dangerous! I read banned books – to protest their banning of course,  but also because they’re invariably such good reads! As you may know,  countless modern classics have been banned or challenged at one time or another,  among them The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,  As I Lay Dying,  Beloved,  The Catcher in the Rye,  The Color… Read More

The winter of my discontent has arrived and I’m feeling exhausted and so sad. There is no turkey to carve. Read More

"Oh, Warren." Read More

Cherry Coke I must confess I often find myself googling my college crush. Actually M was more than a crush,  he was my steady boyfriend during my freshman and sophomore years,  until I took a camp job that following summer and met someone else.  But that’s another story. M was a class ahead of me… Read More

I wanted to join that company. Read More

Why exactly did we need the hats? Read More