Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
I hope the magic of summer in Wisconsin lures my granddaughters back again and again. I want the slow drift of campfire smoke to tickle their memory, and the sticky taste of S’mores to linger long after the last log burns. I’d like the little red train that chugged us through Bay Beach to show [...]
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 [...]
Hope springs eternal, especially when the bulbs and buds burst forth. We muck along through colorless days and worry spring might have forgotten us. Then, a tiny crocus sprouts near the corner fire hydrant, a pink apple blossom pokes out of the branch near your office window, and you brave a quick breath of optimism. [...]
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 [...]