Autobiography

(I originally wrote this piece on October 8, 2015 – but I never published it until now …) Five years ago my mirror shattered. Anyone who has ever been truly loved—or who has deeply [...]

I have a good imagination, but I never could have imagined this day. My “little” sister Anita is sitting in a chemo infusion lab getting the 9th treatment of a prescribed 16. I had never heard of [...]

I waited rather impatiently for a year and a half for baby Micah to say Bubbie—Yiddish for grandma. When it came, it was tentative. Now in just a few short weeks it is a plaintive, but delighted [...]

Moving into the new year with no resolutions. Well, that’s not technically true. Just there are no new ones. It is frustrating to close out a year and not feel I have completed all I had [...]

You might wonder what plans Bob had for employment. He had been working as a hairdresser for several years by the time we were ready to leave Colorado, and decided it was not for him. His dream [...]

My part of the deal with Bob was that I would become a teacher. It was my lifelong dream, which Bob shared for his own reasons. Bob felt it was a small sacrifice now for us to work hard to get me [...]

Bob’s Aunt Virgie, and her husband, Harold, had invited us to come up and stay with them so we could get jobs in Denver. We could see the potential dollar signs as we were coming from our little [...]

You were there in my sorrow When my world dissolved around me You held my hand with each crisis I endured With that quick smile of comfort And that gentle knowing in your eyes I felt hope [...]

I don’t remember for sure how we met. I guess it was in class in junior high, because we wouldn’t have met in the neighborhood. Maybe we met walking home from school since we did live about four [...]

One of the appeals of Bob was that he had direction in his life, not like the high school boys I was around. Bob was very ambitious and was eager to get on with making his life a success. He [...]