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Clear filters ×family · flowers
Just remember, in the winter, far beneath the bitter snows, lies a seed that with the sun’s love, in the spring, becomes the rose. —Bette Midler I was interviewing my colleague Rose for a newsletter story about her newly found passion for gardening.…
5 min read Read In The Gardencoronapandemic · covid19
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.— Maya Angelou Miles and Mommy “at work.” Enforced stay-at-home because of the corona virus is not how I imagined it would…
5 min read Read Home in the time of COVID.celebrations · family
“Use it up, wear it out, make do.”—New England proverb I’m sitting as usual enjoying my second cup of coffee as I began thinking about our dining room table. It’s not elegant or trendy. The top is scratched and the legs could use…
4 min read Read This Old Tablebrothers · 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 Lifebrothers · family
“My father worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium, a master.”—Ralphie from A Christmas Story When my kids first heard this line from our favorite holiday movie, they said in unison,…
5 min read Read To Cuss or Not to Cuss…never my effin’ question!9/11 · Courage
Today at 8:46 a.m. with thousands of other people, I stopped to offer prayers to the victims of the 9/11 terrorist bombing at the World Trade Center. 8:46 was the moment when the plane hit the first tower. I played “Amazing Grace”…
4 min read Read Amazing Grace
