The huge oak tree towering over our house has a wonderful sense of humor. When she feels we are insufficiently grateful for her shade, she waves her many slender arms and showers her multiple-lobed leaves down on us. I hear her wheezy laughter soughing in...
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My mother and I entered the little room at the bank, her safety deposit box in hand. It was time to catalogue the contents, which no one had looked at for several decades. I helped her open the box and then stood back. This is...
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By November, if all goes well, my wife and I will have gone from no grandchildren to five in under a minute. Well, not quite, but that’s what it feels like. My parents have been married long enough to have children in their seventies, my mother...
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I was the lucky one. I got the bare mattress in an open-air screened porch. It was the end of August in upstate New York, one of the Finger Lakes just across the road. The brisk lake breeze cooling the room in the black of...
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It was difficult to identify and put into words what I thought my listeners might get out of my presentation. But by going through that process, I developed a different relationship with them....
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