Last week-end when I opened my closet, my favorite sweater was missing. It is the best one I own, warming me since I bought it over 20 years ago at a market in Siberia. I realized my daughter must have taken it along to cozy up at camp. Annoyance melted into a mixture of amusement […]

As I ponder the string of generations running back from my belly button to Adam and Eve, I have little originality to offer, particularly on the topic of parenting. Maybe just one droplet of wisdom, in fact. It all started one day during an argument with my two-year-old daughter. Maybe we disagreed about whether to […]

As the women filed in, their movements were under-stated, their voices full of alertness, their respect to the events at hand, palpable. Though most were not in uniform, a straightness of gate, a purposefulness marked this group as distinguished. These were the more than 700 women veterans with whom I was privileged to commune in […]

Her hair is white, her toes, a shocking red, Something little Kenneth cannot take in – Grandma had died, so soft and yet so thin, With her poor feet, unsheeted on the bed. He wonders why Grandma had never said She painted all her toes, from one to ten. And now he knew that smell […]