LOVE AND WORK AND STUFF AND BECOMING A REDUCED PERSON
Tolstoy, in a letter to Valerya Aresenyev, November 9, 1856, said, “One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and...
WHO’S READING IN THE KITCHEN?
It is six am on the date of my father’s birthday. He would have been 104. I am writing this on my living room sofa with just one light...
GRANDMA
GRANDMA I just came back from visiting my eight-week old grandson, Ryan. He is my first grandchild and the sunshine of my life. Other...
The Grandfather Connection
(THE GRANDFATHER CONNECTION was published in Parents Magazine-April 1991.) My father and my daughter,Emily, thirteen, are doing the...
Happy Father’s Day, Dad
longer version of this essay appeared in PARENTS MAGAZINE (June 1988). My father would now be 104. [one_half] Dear Dad, It was...