Last night was the first night of Passover. Tomorrow is Easter. In honor of both holidays, and in memory of my father, I’m going to share one of my favorites of my dad’s stories. Here it is: Once, when I was about six or seven, I asked Mama, my grandmother, about Passover. So. Mama’s Passover [...]
My father had major surgery on Wednesday. There were some concerns with this. My father has COPD, and surgeons really don’t like to put COPD patients under with general anesthesia. My father needed to have this surgery done, and his heart was strong enough to clear him for the surgery, but there was still a [...]
Today is one of my favorite holidays, the time when the walls between what-we-know and what-we-dream are particularly thin, a time of masks and costumes and candy, a celebration of the spooky, the mysterious, the surreal. Sadly, I’ve been far too distracted and disorganized this year to come up with a costume. I don’t even [...]
Today is Memorial Day in the U.S. I would like to take a moment to remember our fallen soldiers. When I say “our” fallen soldiers, I don’t just mean U.S. soldiers, I mean all of our fallen soldiers, on all sides of past conflicts around the world. Memorial Day began to honor and mourn both [...]
“Nothing in this book is true.” –Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle I love April Fool’s Day. Well, let me clarify. I like jokes and pranks that are inclusive, that knowingly wink to people and say, “This is clearly not true, but wouldn’t it be wonderful and funny if it were?” To me, the best pranks are [...]
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