Years That Answer

When I wrote this (before the holiday), my granddaughter E was in the air making her way home for Thanksgiving.  It was the first time she f...

Grandson N came over after school today. The first thing we did was play hide and seek out back. I was it. I counted to 20. When I opened my...

How many people see creativity is their birthright? Who assumes it is forbidden fruit, out of reach, not there for people like them? Who fee...

I'm in the midst of a New Yorker article about Emma Thompson and I need to come up for air. It's one of those articles so dense and ...

Another ridiculously heartbreaking Florida election cycle, and then a late season hurricane two days later.  Need I say more?  

My brother, Big D, came for dinner last night.  He was on a business trip and stopped over to visit. We grew up in a super ethnic enclave in...

I've been on a spending spree since warm weather clothes went on sale. I wear warm weather clothes for at least 10 months of the year, s...

When I was a child in the 1950s, and a tween/teen in the 1960s, birthday celebrations were low key. In my family you got a homemade cake, an...

I just returned from a fairly short visit to the Finger Lakes region of New York State.  Ithaca to be exact.  I wasn't there long enough...

We are safe and sound and lucky as all get out. My heart goes out to all the people who weren't lucky. What devastation this hurricane h...