I was fifteen. They just turned thirty. I don’t know why they wanted me around, but they did. They were a nice couple. The son had inherited his father’s moving business and I knew many teenage boys who worked as movers for them, including my brother. I sat in their living room with their longtime […]
I rushed out to pick up a strawberry cheesecake for the block party. New in town, I relished the opportunity to meet some neighbors. The gray and white striped tabby lying dead on the quiet side street startled me. I slowed as I passed and was reminded of the street I lived on when I […]
In one of our many homes, there was a kind of long built-in storage area upstairs. It could almost have been a closet, but it was angled from the roof and wasn’t really a place to hang clothing. Because of the angle, it wasn’t even a place an adult could stand up in. It wasn’t […]
How crazy is it that I am starting to get emotional over inanimate objects? I blame it on the Pandemic. A new refrigerator arrived today. I never actually gave the fridge a thought, with the exception of wishing it didn’t have that “convenient” water dispenser on the front. An eyesore and waste in my opinion. But […]
Over the years, Rob has surprised me with pets I never asked for and couldn’t imagine keeping. A pair of lovebirds that squawked continually and threw seed shells as far as possible from their perches, and a nocturnal hedgehog who was afraid of his own shadow come to mind. Lately he keeps talking about getting […]
One late night my friends dropped me off at home. My house was dark. In fact, all the houses were dark. But I wasn’t tired. I assumed it was around midnight but it was at least an hour later. I was sixteen, undisciplined and not having the curfew of most sixteen-year-olds, in fact not having […]
Driving back from Trader Joe’s after a downpour, I saw a large bird perched on a rickety chicken wire fence post. I was driving slowly because it was one of those back streets with road bumps. It borders a residential area but the street itself doesn’t lend itself to pedestrian traffic, so why the bumps? […]
Often I read or watch bios. And often successful people knew what they wanted to do from the time they were young. They saw a show and wanted to be an actor. They admired a teacher. They loved a book and wanted to write like that. Dancers, singers and musicians are inspirations. I remember asking […]
Mem-non is a nickname Rob calls me when it’s suits him – when we both remember things differently. Or I don’t remember something at all. Mem-non meaning no memory. To be honest, it’s often true of me. I was thinking about my grandfather today and for some reason thought of the last time I saw him. I was […]
It’s funny sometimes how childhood memories surface. My grandfather owned a rather large duplex with a little store at the front. Next door was a formidable house made out of stone with a huge back covered porch. The stone seemed to keep the heat at bay on summer days which were the only days I […]