Archive | March 2012
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When Your ‘Baby’ Moves 3,000 Miles Away
Learned last week that my 24-year-old son Ryan will be starting a job with the UK headquarters of a major consumer products company. He’ll have a great salary and benefits, a mentor and a real path for career growth. Any mom would be proud of this, as I am. But just a small touch of […]
Farewell to the Bagel Man
Murray Lender, who brought bagels to the masses and made Lender’s Bagels into a national brand, died this week. What better time to reflect upon all the great Bagels We Have Known? Without Lender, we’d still be eating toast every morning. It was Lender who turned bagels from a strictly Jewish food enjoyed with lox […]
How You Can Tell When Your Blog’s Bombed Like Hell
It’s happened to me; it’s happened to you. The blog post that makes you think “What did I do?” How could I have written something so numb That even the crickets are politely dumb? It seemed so terrific as you worked at the screen, […]
The Joy of Dust
Dust has never had a good reputation. It aggravates allergies, looks ugly, turns sofa cushions and mattresses into vile powder puffs. It harbors mites that under a microscope look like horror movie nightmares. It inspires random taggers to write “wash me.” But over the past few week fighting dust has been a losing battle here. […]
Travels With My Aunts
Decades ago, my Aunt Josephine, an Italian, was the top student in her predominantly Irish Catholic grade school, but the nuns didn’t want to make her the valedictorian. “Couldn’t we find an Irish child?,” one of them asked the pastor. Fortunately, the priest told the nuns that if Josephine Cipolla was the top student, then […]
Mugs Full of Memories
One of my oldest and dearest friends is still pretty on the outside but dangerously cracked inside. I’m wondering whether I should end the relationship but keep putting the thought out of my mind. I’ve had this flowered coffee mug for at least two decades now. I look inside it and see a spidery network […]
More Midlife Couples Pull the Plug on Marriage
This past week the New York Times reported that more couples in their 50s and 60s are deciding to divorce and spend their sunset years alone. Here’s a link to the Times’ summary of the study from Bowling Green State University. It revealed that a third of adults ages 46 through 64 were divorced, separated […]
We’ll Miss You, Davy
For millions of baby boomers, part of their tween years died yesterday with Davy Jones. Davy and The Monkees helped set the stage for many acts that would follow over the next four decades. As a manufactured rock band – hatched not in a garage or basement, but in a television studio seeking to capitalize […]
