Suprise Me

In the late 1960’s, I was asked to appear in front of my local Miami (Florida) Draft Board. The Board wanted me to defend my application to become a conscientious objector.  They were especially interested in quotes I used in my application.  The quotes were from Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller.  This novel had… Read More

... numbers corresponding to the days of the year were written on slips of paper and placed in plastic capsules, which were put into a deep glass jar (at the time I’d imagined a bingo cage). Read More

This chance encounter in September 1974 didn't change my life, but it certainly changed the lives of the other two people involved.  Read More

She kept saying in her combination of Yiddish and English, "I can't believe they are walking on the moon." Read More

Over the years I would occasionally call him and attempt to talk. His short answers and inability to share his life left me feeling cut off at the knees. Read More

The Chain Letter and the Fender Bender The first story I wrote for Retro was about some rather costly auto body damage I caused when I was driving my husband’s beloved T-bird.   Needless to say he wasn’t happy about that.   (See Fender Bender) Years before we had another fender bender and although that time… Read More

Lately, I have been thinking that, aside from the little ones in my life who love to tear open wrapping paper to find a new toy, the best gift may be the gift of time. Read More

You never like that stove.  You don’t know what it meant. Read More

As workers, we used what tools we had easily at our disposal to save: IRAs. But other than that, we enjoyed being DINKs (dual income, no kids). We didn’t have children until we’d been married 11 years. At that time, we set up a college fund and started to set aside serious money each month.… Read More

If home is the place “where everybody knows your name,” where you have friends that date back over 50 years, Evanston is my home town. Read More