At the airport. Exactly one month from today, I am side-stepping my fear of flying and getting on an airplane. This is me preparing for the journey. (The reason, to […]

Christmas in my childhood town of Bethpage, New York. I forgot why I used to be so excited by the holidays, but then I went back the other night to […]

The Three Brothers, at the Acoma Roofing Christmas Party – the business my father started back in the 50’s. Oh, and BTW, those are my reading glasses on the top […]

My mother’s 90th birthday cake at her big 90th birthday shindig bash! Such an accomplishment!! She shouldn’t even be here – she had colon cancer when I was pregnant with […]

Looks who’s on the way into the city for the Grateful Dead concert! I’ve got the tickets, my squash blossom earrings, my rocks, and, oh yeah, my unreconstructed hippie-turned auditor-turned […]

Wonderfulness in a bottle, right down to the very design and packaging. It’s the little things…Speaking of not-so-little things: Funk is becoming a Dead Head. Why does that kind of […]

Back to the same-old, same-old; no one is watching the till anymore. And it makes it doubly-tough when the media is part of the Establishment, including past media types, like […]

My Uncle Pitts. An Italian from Pittsburgh. Who has a name like that anymore? Who delights in their children to this degree anymore? A full kiss on the lips, holding […]

When your adult daughter starts performing your moves…

I forgot what it was like to be in Kansas City. To be hearing the same things that Funk and I heard 4 years ago. Well, at least one of […]