This post is by my daughter Alli. My husband is on active duty in the US Army , and for our first holiday season together we were living in a little town called Sierra Vista, Arizona, which is adjacent to Fort Huachuca, where he was stationed. Since we had only been married since the previous January […]
No place like home
The snowstorm in the Midwest dropped over a foot of snow, but didn’t stop Daniel from getting back to California. We drive home from San Francisco tonight, and his friends are in our kitchen before he’s even unloaded his bags from the car. And although Daniel thinks I overfeed everyone (is there any Jewish mother who […]
under the weather
So I write this ode to blogging…and not even 24 hours later, suddenly I don’t feel like doing it. Can I say I have a headache? Even if I don’t? I realize I could skip a day. It’s not like anyone is taking attendance. I could get a note from V excusing me–if he wasn’t sleeping. But I don’t want […]
Why am I doing this?
“You should have a blog,” said the writing expert helping me organize my thoughts for a book. I said, “What’s a blog?” Even though I knew I’d do it just because he suggested it. That was almost six months ago. All he told me about a blog was to write every day. I started a […]
Holiday Humiliation
I love getting Christmas cards–especially the family pictures from faraway friends. That way I get to watch their children grow up through the mail. None of my friends are watching my children grow up. Because I’ve never sent holiday cards. The idea is way too much pressure for a professional procrastinator. I do THINK about […]
Survivors of something
I don’t write a lot about cancer here–not because I don’t have enough to say, but because I have too much. Like, don’t get me started. But now it’s on my mind, thanks to some comments from yesterday. So I’ll say this, and then maybe I won’t discuss cancer again for awhile. Once my mother died of cancer, getting […]
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