My Mother and Father Were Both Born in July (COVID)
I think about them more than I did before they were married before they were parents when my mother tap danced when my father played violin my mother had boyfr...
Category: roots
How Life Changes (Relatives) (COVID)
We live with family now. We were lukewarm about relatives (not all but many) now because of the pandemic and small apartments big house in the country rooms fo...
5780 (Day One)
Today’s the beginning of the Jewish New Year, day when we remember prayers that all begin May We and then, generic hopes for joy and good, for justice and...
Other People’s Secrets (Book Doctor)
I like reading them though their words aren’t mine, my own words harder to find. Memoir today about a family who lived a normal life, immigrants, Jewish,...
I Am Changing My Hair Today
This morning I’m on my way to Anita’s to change my hair. Don’t ask me how I was talked into orange. What’s funny is the people who sa...
Clark Gable and my mother
Marianna described a play she wrote with friends called Mama Dramas stories about our mothers. My mother was visiting my Uncle Alex’s nightclub somewhere ...