I am cleaning out my mother’s pantry. Occasionally, when I find a particularly old expiration date, I stop to text my sister or a friend with news of what I've found. Granola - 2019 Bean Dip – 2018 In 1991 my friend found a frozen Salisbury Steak dinner in his...
It's Friday night, and my son is taking the El to a high school basketball game. It is "the big game" with their "cross-town rivals." The trash talk online is brutal. He is wearing his school colors, a bright orange sweatshirt. He isn't sure if the friends he is going...
On the second to last day of our trip we woke up, as we often do, in a Springhill Suites. This one was near the Buffalo airport. My husband is obsessed with his Mariott points and so, although we both had childhoods where a Holiday Inn Holidome (with a pool!) was the...
When I was a little girl, we lived in Tanzania. I was only four when we went to Tanzania and so the house in Tanzania and the house in Louisville that we lived in before merge together in my memories. Both houses had two bathrooms, but in Tanzania I avoided one of...
I do not remember what, if anything, we did for New Year's Eve 2019. I know what my expectations were. I thought the year would be about my son and his turning 13 and his bar mitzvah. For a while, it was. My daughter was halfway through her freshman year in high...
Yesterday on the radio I heard that this coming Tuesday, December 8th, is "Bodhi Day," the day that Buddhists believe Siddhartha became the Buddha. I've been interested in Buddhism lately. I've been interested in its beliefs and in the idea that the founding myth of...