Tag Me In! When I was a kid we had the WWF, and the drama that unfolded each week was captivating. One of the highlights of the spectacle was when a pair or group of wrestlers would be scheduled to fight instead of just one-on-one. These tag teams worked like this: once a wrestler realized... Continue Reading →
Word! I was a teenager in the late 80s and 90s in New York, and, as a result, there is a particular piece of slang that has remained in constant use in my vocabulary. That exclamation is, "Word!" It basically means, "exactly." However, there is a nuanced difference between "exactly" and "word." People today may... Continue Reading →
Mom - On The Day You Should Be 80 You had no idea back then how much love and joy you would bring to the lives of people around you. You were busy being the older sister, doing what was expected. But, thank you. For your sense of the ridiculous. Thank you for holding my... Continue Reading →
Do You Want Candles With That? "Do you want candles with that?" My husband asked after peering at the keto cake mix and icing I'd bought to celebrate my birthday. "Not all of them," I replied, "It'd be an inferno!" Then, chuckling, memories flooded my mind. Mom's Birthday Cake Mom was turning 40 something, and... Continue Reading →
Christmas Angel When my children were very small, we didn't have a lot of money. One year I bought a $20 artificial tree and ornaments. The problem was that once I got the tree home, I realized that the decorations were too heavy for the tree and the tree topper was more of a tree... Continue Reading →
Word! I was a teenager in the late 80s and 90s in New York, and, as a result, there is a particular piece of slang that has remained in constant use in my vocabulary. That exclamation is, "Word!" It basically means, "exactly." However, there is a nuanced difference between "exactly" and "word." People today may... Continue Reading →
Surprise Visits My mother used to say - Just come by! You don't have to call. Then I don't have to worry about dusting! She meant it. She loved surprise visits from people. I confessed to my husband the other day that one of the hardest things about losing my mom was the loss of... Continue Reading →
Expectations 'Tis the season for high expectations. But what happens when those expectations don't match reality? What happens when the doll you wanted is not the doll you got or the education you worked so hard to complete doesn't end up providing the life, career, or stability you expected? Are we grateful for what we... Continue Reading →
Divided Attention This weekend I made a room divider/privacy screen for my kids. On a regular day, they may get on each other’s nerves. Now that they are home most of the time - doing school on zoom sessions and are in each other’s faces 24/7, they get on each other’s nerves a lot. So... Continue Reading →
My parents split up when I was three so I usually only saw him every other weekend, two weeks in the summer and on alternating holidays. This meant that the longest time we spent together was 14 days. Pop was always doing something, fixing something, rigging something and he loved having us kids help him... Continue Reading →
Assorted boxes strewn across the living room floor, we picked up handfuls and passed them around as we finished. Some were old, faded papery black and white, others small, boxy, and colored as things were in the 70s. Still more screamed of hairspray, bad fashion choices, and loud vibrant colors. The sizes of the prints... Continue Reading →
One of the highlights of my sleepaway camp days was the packages wrapped in repurposed brown grocery bags lovingly inscribed with my name, cabin, camp address, and, most importantly, the cartoon characters drawn by my mother on the back making amusing comments in speech bubbles. They were all different shapes, sometimes metal danish cookie tins... Continue Reading →
