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I have a few wrinkles and brown spots—we greet each other cordially in the mirror every morning. But does that mean I shouldn’t be allowed to feel contemporary, confident and sexy? —Lois Joy Johnson* Photo courtesy of Tony ❤️ 2020 No,…
3 min read Read Of Wrinkles and Spotsbrothers · celebrations
“Time makes us bolder, children get older. I’m getting older too.”—Stevie Nicks We recently spent a glorious weekend with our sons attending the wedding of their childhood friend Katherine in beautiful Ithaca, NY. Our boys first met Katherine in middle school and…
7 min read Read Landslide Weddinggaypride · LoveWins
“The beauty of standing up for your rights is others see you standing and stand up as well.” — Cassandra Duffy Mark and I marched in our first Pride [1] Parade this month 15 years after our twin sons came out. Why so…
5 min read Read PRIDE On Paradecareer · Courage
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of…we know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.”—Blaise Pascal As I walked Miles one cold Sunday afternoon recently at our favorite park, I was pondering my career and…
4 min read Read The Heart Knowscareer · Courage
“Coda: a concluding segment of a piece of music, a dance, or a statement. It’s usually short and adds a final embellishment beyond a natural ending point.”—Vocabulary.com Here I am, on the precipice once again. Corporate job—over. Writing life—ready to resume. I’ve…
4 min read Read Codabrothers · celebrations
“Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”—Julia Childs Lana Lee Jones D’Agostino, July 18, 1955 – April 25, 2018 Friday, April 27, 2018. Lana, you’re missing the conversation about your life that’s happening as we listen to your…
3 min read Read Farewell to my Kitchen Sisterbirthdays · Christmas
Life doesn’t come with a manual. It comes with a mother. You would have turned 90 today. December 15 is the fine day you arrived, aptly named Joyce to herald in the joy of the Christmas season. I think of you every…
4 min read Read The Cookie Makerfamily · Heart
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.—Abraham Lincoln Mom, Debbie & me Grandma Joyce & Baby Boinkers Mom & Dad in wedding finery Grandma’s lap is best! Happy 1st Birthday Adam & Alex! Sisters! Aunt…
5 min read Read Choosing Joy on Mother’s DayMusicOfMyLife · Baltimore
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.—Berthold Auerbach, poet and author I can chart the course of my life through song from the earliest days when my parents’ hi-fi played Oklahoma, The King and I, My Fair Lady…
6 min read Read The Soundtrack of My Life
