Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
Grandma time passes as quickly as a sneeze, and it stands as still as an eyelash on a sleepy pink cheek. It’s sweet like a New Jersey Mallomar, and tasty like a crisp deli dill. It’s a soft, smushy matzo ball in a salty bowl of soup. Grandma time whooshes away and bounces back, away [...]
My Dad’s first grandchild was born in a city almost four hours away from him. Shortly after, my mom started a graduate school program not too far from our apartment. This meant, among other things, she got to see new baby Charlie once a week. My dad found this whole situation untenable. Dad came up [...]
Our first grandchild rolled into town this week for a visit we've been planning with mounting anticipation since the day she was born. And, even with all that advanced hoopla, she has outshined her reviews. You might expect a little diva behavior from someone who has had three songs rewritten in her honor and whose [...]
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 got first dibs on my granddaughter to kick off a weekend I have been counting down the days to since Christmas. All four of my adult kids will be together with me this weekend and we’re going to whoop it up. The star of the festivities is their new little niece, Margo Lake. Later [...]