Pages, Stages, and Rages

Today I walked my daughter into daycare. Her favorite teacher (Miss S) was sitting with her head wrapped in a kerchief. It was a new look fo...

Dear Mom, Tomorrow will be three years since I picked up the phone to Dad's voice saying only "Honey, she's gone." ...

Growing up, our next door neighbors were our dearest friends. I called them Aunt K and Uncle B. If my mother wasn't home when I got off ...

Lotus is named after my grandmother.  My father's mother. I adored her. I looked up to her--even though by the time I was 14 I was tal...

When I think of being Jewish, of the High Holidays, I always think about the Al-Chet. I allude to it, I think about it. For the sins which...

So I've been binge-watching Gilmore Girls.  I'd never seen it, a bunch of people said it was good and I've been enjoying it. I...

Tattoo Not the dwarf on Fantasy Island yelling "The plane, The plane" and I realize I just showed my age. But a tattoo. I...

Today I had a mammogram. I had been having pain in my left breast, and the doctor, after ruling out heart stuff sent me to get a mammogram...

My father has been somewhat of a Lothario as he is is working through his grief. For reasons I don't comprehend, women live longer tha...

Dear Mom, I have my first byline.  My first paid byline, mom!  It's in the online magazine Kveller . I think it is right--the name. Th...

I was very moved by Hillary's speech. I thought of my mom. My mother voted for Hillary in 2008. My mother was born in 1927. She wa...

Work-wise and getting things done - wise, last week pretty much sucked. However, as I plod along trying to take steps forward in my grief ...

Dear Mom, It's been two years since Dad called--his voice nearly unrecognizable--and said, "Honey, she's gone." It wasn...

I like the new Facebook feature.  The one where you can click on something and then you can see all of your posts on this day for the past y...

Someone just asked me for my mom's noodle kugel recipe. I have to ask one of my nieces about it. Why? I loved most of the stuff mom ma...

The Governor: (dismissively) Paper. Cervantes: Manuscript The Governor: Valuable? Cervantes: Only to me. -- Man of La Mancha I went ...

Two nights ago I was dreaming that someone had put one of those Victorian pan warmers in my bed. I woke up and Lotus was in bed with us runn...

One of my personal powerful moment of BlogHer came as an aside. We were listening to Gwyneth Paltrow discuss her family. This was THE Keyn...

For the seven years we waited for Lotus Mother's day was hell. For the five years we tried to become pregnant and failed Mother's d...

Dear Ms. Roberts, This thank-you letter is a year overdue. It's been a rough year, but I thought better late than never. I'm sur...