Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
When your favorite things involve squishy mud and ripe smells and bugs, it can be a tricky thing to introduce them to the next generation. Fortunately, our granddaughter loves them too. Whew! She trumped through the woods like a champ, listened intently when her Aunt Molly gave her a mycology lesson, sunk her purple-painted toes [...]
Everything I love about June — the fresh breezes, the long walks, the ice cream, the painted toe nails, the burgers, the sunshine, the joy — is even better when Margo comes to town. Grandchildren make this old world sparkle. Ours arrived yesterday, fresh off the blessed gift of an Allegiant Air direct flight from [...]
When my kids were little, any one of us could call out “family hug!” and the whole gang would come running from various rooms in the house to join in the big squeeze. Our youngest daughter’s graduation this weekend felt exactly like that. Molly invited us, “Family hug!” and we all came running from various [...]
Sherri Shepherd doesn't mince words, but she does choose them carefully and she doles them out with the kind of grace and wit we all need in this crazy old world. She and her daytime talk show are palate cleansers for the indigestible diet of confounding messages our newsfeeds burp up at us every day. [...]
Twenty years after I procrastinated ordering my Christmas card and thus became the world's most ardent Groundhog Day fan, I got to see a live ceremony. It's hard to say who was more excited about the whole deal, me or Essex County Executive Joe DiVincenzo. With his thick New Jersey accent, Joe D. introduced Lady [...]