Friday, November 22nd
Today is Friday, November 22. John F Kennedy was killed on Friday November 22 in 1963. I still remember standing…
Category: I will miss you
You will help me, Bulus and God.
On September 22, 1941, the start of the year 5702 in the Jewish calendar, Renia Spiegel wrote in her diary…
Reading Terminal Market
It’s been almost a month since I joined Anne Mei in our apartment in Philadelphia along with our furniture and…
Poignography.
As I mentioned in my last post, love after death can get caught up in magical thinking. When I said…
Traces of magical thinking
It’s been a week since Toto died and I still open the front door expecting to find her curled up…
Each day dawns but once
Today I take comfort in the maxim “Each day dawns but once.” Last night I woke frequently, every time…
The sister I hardly knew
She hated it when I called her my “baby sister.” She was the youngest of seven. I, the oldest. She…
Smile
Some birthdays carry more weight than others. After I turned 29, I spent the next year thinking about turning 30,…
Sometimes the blessed hour does strike quickly.
The friend whom I talked about in the last post died early this morning. Thankfully the doctors had put her…
We survived 95!
Sunday marks the 10th anniversary of finding a mass on Laura’s brain. This is the story of some happy days…