The roots of cypresses
I don’t know the Italian word for “mensch,” but Rocco Schiavone is a mensch. He’s the detective in the eponymous…
Tag: #memory
Merry Christmas!
Four years ago I wrote a post titled “Christmas is a season for ghosts.” In it I mentioned that I…
Big man on campus.
Labor Day is ending, along with this strange summer. This is the first September in more than 20 years that…
Yahrzeit
Laura died in the early hours of the morning of Saturday, January 30, 2010. Here is the story of…
Ten years
“And sometimes anniversaries hurt . You feel them in inexplicable aches in your body, or in a general unease that…
Presently aging
What do you mean that the Concert for Bangla Desh happened almost 50 years ago?!? That was just one of…
Reading Terminal Market
It’s been almost a month since I joined Anne Mei in our apartment in Philadelphia along with our furniture and…
A sweet gem
Done with the pile of boxes that came from outside storage. Last night as I went through the last box,…
We survived 95!
Sunday marks the 10th anniversary of finding a mass on Laura’s brain. This is the story of some happy days…
Listening to RFK’s last train ride.
Robert Kennedy was killed on June 6, 1968. We were living in a small village on the eastern slopes of…