Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
A bustling coffee house near my brand new granddaughter’s apartment bears my name. It’s called Lalaland and it serves some decadent drinks. Naturally, I popped in. On a busy Saturday morning where the wait time for a takeout iced latte hovered around 45 minutes, no one was particularly interested in my LaLa origin story. I [...]
I’ve spent the last 12 days largely in the company of a three-month old sensei. I mean that in the literal sense. When children ask us where babies come from, we often answer with as much biological precision as we can muster. Sometimes I think we’d be better served if that conversation went the other [...]
I celebrated my birthday on an intermitently rainy Sunday afternoon in New Jersey. One granddaughter eagerly helped me blow out my candles, the other recoiled in horror at the flames those candles generated. Together they represent the yin and yang of birthdays on the far side of the hill. Birthdays here can be sweet celebrations [...]
I’m enjoying an extended, coast-to-coast run of LaLa-palooza that opens in New Jersey with two darling divas, and closes with the LA debut of another rising star. I’m in my grandma era. That means I pay closer attention to this crazy old world because I want to preserve its best assets for them. It also [...]
Yesterday morning, after a particularly challenging day, I woke up and almost immediately spilled my entire large mug of tea. I took that big hot mess as a metaphor for my life, and readied myself for the glum day ahead. But, a funny thing happened as I mopped up the spill. It led me to [...]