
On the Road to 80
I hope I look as good as my mother did when I turn 80.
Jan 15


GOOD FUNERALS
Funerals were forbidden when I was growing up. They were mysterious events my parents attended with other adults. My first introduction...
Sep 5, 2024


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 21, 2024


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...
Jun 12, 2024

What’s Today’s Date?
During a recent hospitalization, someone came into my room and asked me that. Without my iPhone close at hand, I panicked for a second....
Feb 29, 2024


Seated Around the Table Part Three — My Kids and Grandkids
We opened the wall In 1624, John Donne wrote, “No man is an island, entire of itself.” Of course, he was writing about the...
Dec 19, 2023


60 Years Ago — November 22, 1963
It is my first “where were you when this happened” memory. On November 22, 1963, when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, I was...
Nov 22, 2023


Seated Around the Table Part Two: My Children’s Generation
Thanksgiving 1989 My children would probably say that I am a lot like my mother (pictured above). By the time they were old enough to...
Nov 2, 2023

Seated Around the Table
Part One: My Childhood At my writers’ group, we talked about a challenge suggested by Nina Raskin: Think about who sat at your table from...
Oct 10, 2023


My Hair-Raising Journey
This memoir is dedicated to my writing group I was born with black hair. Unlike my beloved cousin Annette, my mother didn’t have to cover...
Sep 13, 2023