It was while watching the Amazon series “Transparent” that I first heard of Tzadikim Nistarim. It’s from the Talmud and I wasn’t familiar with it — much less able to pronounce it — so...
A while ago I wrote about the difficulty I was having, learning to back up our small trailer. On a recent trip, we stopped at an Amish roadside stand in western Minnesota and while...
I have loved shoes for as long as I can remember but didn’t think I had a problem until one day my husband casually referred to me as “Imelda” — as in Imelda Marcos, the...
I spent this past week cleaning out my husband’s mother’s condo. Like so many people of that era, she rarely threw anything away and I doggedly faced closets filled with shelves of saved grocery...
I was talking with a friend about a good time for us to meet for breakfast and we chose an earlier hour than we probably would have, years ago. “These days I get up...
I gave up caffeine nearly two years ago and was not happy when I saw the headline inside yesterday’s newspaper that read, “High caffeine intake could prevent dementia, study hints”. As if I needed...
I just got back from a wonderful sixteen day road trip, which only intensified my long standing desire to apply for a job like Charles Kuralt used to have. My husband, our dog and I...
A bunch of years ago when we were having a bathroom remodeled, the workmen took out the existing toilet and put it in the driveway, intending to haul it off when installation of the new...
Not long ago I was invited to a memorial service for my friend Molly, who died this past December. The date was chosen because it would have been her sixty-ninth birthday. The place was...
I used to have a plumber who was the loudest talker I’ve ever encountered. He was the nicest man imaginable and was excellent at his job yet he spoke so loudly that it literally...
