There are a few activities we do once a year bowling, hiking Shrine Pass (now that’s a keeper), boating (rather sitting in inner-tubes drinking beer around anchored boats with our son and his friends.
I used to feel guilty about hoarding … how I have junked up my neat bookshelves in my library by stacking up extra books, extra interesting papers, boxes of prized stationery, instructions to replace the…
I am writing this in the aftermath of the Robb Elementary School mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas. My first thought, after recovering from the shock and horror, was, “Where was I at age 8?”
A friend of mine who attended college in the days of carefree innocence, when the job market was good and when we were at peace, once told me that she tried to just make C’s.…
We were once hashing around ideas in our family and the question above came up. My mother said “trapeze artist,” my stepfather, “restaurateur,” and I immediately said “entomologist.” Now many people thought I was already…