A friend of mine said he has an early memory of a flood in Cincinnati, where he was standing by the front door and watching a boat go by on the street. He was two years old. Most people can’t remember anything from before four or five years of age. At least I can’t. I can barely remember anything these days. My mind has become a sieve. When we were at the zoo, Tin was…
We went to see Willie Nelson at the House of Blues last night and had another friend’s daughter come and sit with Tin. Willie is ancient. I guess I expected him to be older but not ancient. But that wasn’t an issue really, because he still played like a pup, but the problem was that we were with this crowd of people who were talking nonstop and that the House of Blues was not showcasing…
On New Year’s Day we took a walkabout with our guests to City Park and I brought them under the big oak tree to listen to the wind chimes. A man was laying on a blanket not too far from us and my friend’s German mother, camera in hand with a lens as big as a telescope, went over and started speaking to him. Turns out he was the one who designed the chimes in…
There is a saying in Croatia that you stepped out of bed on your left foot, it is the equivalent of saying you woke on the wrong side of the bed. Last night we went to two parties – and put Tin to sleep in a pack and play at the second, but by 11:00, we had already all turned into pumpkins so we came home and all went to bed to the sounds of…
For some reason, all of my significant partners in life have been atheists. Today’s Christmas – not a morning that Jews are stirring because there are no gifts and there is no tree. But here at the LaLa where we live, we have a Christmas Story and it goes something like this, my mother who is now angel knew that there was one thing in my wonderful life I wanted more than anything else –…
We decided in advance not to buy a lot of stuff for our baby. T even said absolutely no shower. But like it or not, when we both carried the 17 pound boy across the threshold of the LaLa behind him came 500 pounds of stuff – diapers, wipes, blankets, clothes, jackets, socks, washcloths, creams, vaseline, thermometer, aspirator, Baby Tylenol, Johnson’s baby everything, a portable crib till our hand me down comes, a changing table,…