“Hey, did you guys see this thing for POW bracelets?” Cathy came bounding into 14D with a mail order flyer. “We should order some.” It was November of 1972 and I was a college freshman at an expensive but academically mediocre all-girl junior college in Miami, Florida. I took the paper from her and began [...]
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Memories That Come More Often Than Once a Year
Posted in Slice of Life on May 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Love, Susan
Posted in Slice of Life on April 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
But thoughts of the bracelet returned. How might a personal keepsake end up on a swap meet table?
Chiaroscuro
Posted in Slice of Life on March 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It was quite a week. Intense, but good intense. So I treated myself to a vacation day. Started the morning on my deck with a lovely, lovely meditation. Then I wandered around the apartment, emailing, chatting until I finally got whacked with a sudden inspiration to hit the gym – first time in nearly two [...]
“Health Food” at Our House
Posted in Slice of Life on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Holding a fresh fork like a lance, he takes a deep breath. “Yep, I’m going in.”
The Rest of the BAD MOM Story
Posted in Slice of Life on March 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Written in March, 2007, for another blog. Last week I posted a ‘Bad Mom’ experience, to which you gave me some excellent feedback. I had temporarily turned into a lunatic, scary mom and felt terrible about it. The update is that things are good between my son and me and at very least he has [...]
