For someone who worked in television, it’s surprising how little I watch. V watches a lot more, mostly on ESPN. I can’t remember the last time I agreed to sit through a golf match. Like he is about everything else, V is far more willing to come over to my side. I doubt his golf buddies read […]
Happy landings
Since Daniel goes to college in Wisconsin, there are some neuroses logistics involved in his trips back and forth. I’m a Jewish mother and I worry. It’s May and even in the Midwest the weather was good, so this time I didn’t even think about worrying. I should have. Because things didn’t go according to the plan. I’m […]
Did Ben Franklin have kids– or not??
I didn’t plan to be a mother. After several years of marriage, H and I took a class at UCLA every Saturday for 3 months with other couples like ourselves. None of us could figure out whether or not we wanted to have kids—and the classes were designed to help us decide. At the end of the […]
A war story
There were similarities and scenes in her struggle that struck close to home. But the truth is that my cancer story was a journey; Farrah’s story is a war. It hit me so hard I feel compelled–and yet almost reluctant– to write about it. Especially since I wrote about her yesterday. Her words– from the passages that she reads aloud from her […]
Farrah
There’s no way to prepare for the ultimate test of your life. The time that can define the deepest truth of who you are. Sometimes that truth brings surprises. You think you know yourself, or someone else. But you don’t know how anyone will react until it happens. Looking back, I don’t think cancer was my finest […]
post Mother’s Day post
I neglected to write about my Mother’s Day. But I wasn’t neglected. V came through with chocolate. And though my kids were thousands of miles away, they bridged the distance with words—-on the phone, on cards, even on a pair of pajamas. They know how much it matters to me and they let me know […]
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