It’s hard to believe my husband and I have been in our new home over three months now. Some days it feels like we’ve been here forever. Some days it feels like we’ll never get settled. It felt like home when I walked into the house after we traveled out […]
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Hallowed Ground: Visiting the 9-11 Museum
This isn’t a typical Halloween post, but it is about hallowed ground. The original meaning of Halloween is All Hallows Eve, the holy evening before All Saint’s Day on November 1. The fun side of the holiday came from pagan autumn rituals. In this post, I return to the hallowed […]
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Best Wishes to My Son and Daughter-in-Law on Their Wedding
Yesterday my son married his long-time girlfriend in a small and lovely ceremony in New York. So I’ve had weddings on my mind for many weeks. I can’t help but compare their situation to my own. My son and his wife have been together for many years; my husband and […]
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More Dental Woes . . . And More To Come
I’ve written before about my dentophobia. Unfortunately, I’ve had more dental problems recently. My upper left teeth started hurting sometime before spring began this year. When I mentioned it at my cleaning in May, the dentist thought I had a cracked filling in #14 on the upper left side. It […]
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Thoughts of Life and Death on My Husband’s Milestone Birthday
In a couple of days, my husband will celebrate a milestone birthday. One that ends with a big 0. I’ll let you guess which one, though I will say that it’s getting harder to claim he is still middle-aged. Plausible, but harder. We know many people who are older than […]
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September 11, A Generation Later
A few days ago the topic of September 11 came up during a conversation with a friend. “Can you believe it’s been eighteen years?” she said. “My grandchildren don’t remember it. The youngest one wasn’t even born.” Few days live in infamy across our entire nation. Pearl Harbor, which was […]
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Gremlins
Equipment is supposed to work perfectly, isn’t it? It doesn’t matter what kind of equipment—computers, kitchen appliances, our bodies, or in the case of my most recent skirmish with disaster, automobiles. One evening last week I attended a meeting that ended after dark. It wasn’t late, but the sun was […]
Continue readingForty Years Ago Today I Began My Legal Career
Forty years ago today, September 4, 1979, I started working for Hallmark Cards. It was the day after Labor Day, summer was over, and it was time to get to work. My husband and I had spent the summer studying for the bar exam, taking the three-day test at the […]
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The U.S. Postal Service Gift That Keeps on Giving
I posted a couple of weeks ago about the error the U.S. Postal Service made in recording the zip code of our new home. In that post, I described the finger-pointing between the Zip Code A branch and the Zip Code B branch personnel. In a second post, I described […]
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Lost and Found
A few days ago, a friend said to me, “You look thin. Have you lost weight?” “I have no idea,” I responded. “I can’t find my scale.” The bathroom scale is one of the things my husband and I have lost in the move. I remember packing it. I think […]
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