The New World

He is my grand nephew’s classmate and they were both playing “inspectors” at Ellis Island in their third grade performance of people in their own family who had immigrated to America.

It was funny, touching, terrifying, and then it was … Read the rest

The Art of Decay

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I bought some new make-up.  The lady was so effusively commanding, it was hard to not vow to faithfully pat the eye creme on every night “or else!” as she put it,  pointing to my spreading crow’s feet.

Her make-up … Read the rest

The Runner

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As a teenager, she could water ski on one ski better than I did on two.  But, for the record, just about everyone water skied better on one ski than I did on two, but she water skied better than … Read the rest