Sep 19
When You Lose Your Phone
I still have no idea how I lost my phone. When we parked the car and started for the elevator in our building, I patted the zipped pocket...
Sep 11
Twenty-Three Years Later: Trying to Remember the Power of Community and Caring
Welcome to Cherry Preschool 2001 On this 23rd anniversary of 9/11, I’m lamenting the loss of community and caring I felt in the aftermath...
Sep 5
GOOD FUNERALS
Funerals were forbidden when I was growing up. They were mysterious events my parents attended with other adults. My first introduction...
Aug 21
A Salute to Mom’s Chocolate Cake on her Birthday
Finally reproduced her cake in 2015 A few months after my mother died, I decided to bake her chocolate cake from scratch. My...
Aug 1
Women’s Health Screening Available ... If You Pay
I called Endeavor Health to schedule the ABUS screening but was told that Medicare no longer covered it.
Jul 17
How COVID Changed Me: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
I hate how the specter of this disease still haunts my thoughts and informs some of the choices I make. COVID has made me feel old.
Jul 9
Younger than Biden
I’m younger than Joe Biden, but not by much. I play a version of what Rob Reiner (same age as me) calls Name That Name every day. Nouns...
Jun 12
Wedding Ceremony Regrets
I recently saw a Facebook post that posed the question “What is One Thing You Wish You Could Change About Your Wedding?” I was a young...
May 11
Mother’s Day: A Great Grandchild's Tribute to her Bubbe
Maya and Bubbe Written May 7,2015 This is my first Mother’s Day without Mom. When my mother died last month, my 9-year-old granddaughter...
Apr 25
Technological Torment
Early in the pandemic, when everything was shut down, my iPhone decided to throw in the towel. I ordered a new one online and...