She was all knowing and all seeing. That’s how she saw herself. The world outside her window was her television and she watched with great enthusiasm. She also loved watching people through her grand variety of glasses, including sunglasses. For while she loved to watch the world, she […]
It was just voting time in New York and I am feeling a tad bit nostalgic. My mother’s birthday, which falls during this week, oftentimes coincided with election day. She took such great pride in voting and passed that sense of civic duty onto me. It was an […]
The morning sky was dark My head and hair frizzy and fuzzy filled with songs of the lark First, there was a bunny Surely, he was real Or was I just hungry Then, there was my dog Surely, he wasn’t real Seemed I needed some grog Yet my […]
About eight years ago a colleague of mine told me of a special gesture he used to do for his wife on her birthday. He would send flowers to his mother in-law thanking her for giving birth to his beautiful wife. I was dumfounded. Until that point, birthdays […]