SAMUEL MARCK (COVID)
Last week a reference librarian named Erica in the Grand Forks North Dakota public library responded to my email about Samuel Marck, my mother’s father. I...
Category: roots
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...
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...