Granny Thelma set the tone for the first day of her 95th year on this bold and beautiful earth by sashaying into her birthday party, throwing her arm into the air and announcing, "I'm here!" The lady knows how to make an entrance! She also knows how to live. Thelma loves universally and mothers with [...]
My family knows the way to my heart. Probably because they ARE my heart. So, in a year in which I told them emphatically and sincerely not to get me any birthday presents, they brought me a homemade loaf of a beloved bread, baked in a tiny apartment kitchen and carried 1,182 miles; a fresh [...]
I'm ba-ack. And I can't believe I got to spend two weekends in a row with a perfect little peanut named Margo. I also got to spend time with one of the four woman honored by her name. That feels like a privilege too. Margo owes her first name to all four of her great-grandmas [...]
In the days leading up to her 84th birthday, my mom completed three crosswords each morning, raced us to the Wordle, swam every afternoon, negotiated an auto repair, wrote a poem, played tennis with her feisty friends, took her necessary daily walk and toasted the sunset each evening with a nice glass of oaky chardonnay. [...]
It's always fun to celebrate a 21st birthday, that raucous rite of passage into American adulthood. When your path to the party takes you through such unimaginable places, that the milestone can feel like a miracle, you get to celebrate with extra joy. That's how we felt last night as we toasted Jojo the Pizza [...]