Month: November 2013

The last guests had left after my grandmother’s funeral. Only my sister and I remained in my parents’ cabin. We had time to sit, eat the funeral foods friends had left and reflect on her unexpected death. At her age, having a heart attack always was a possibility, but still it came unexpectedly. We pulled…

The ordinary day that changed us For the AARP crowd one question awaits an answer this weekend. Where were you that day, 50 years ago, when President John F. Kennedy was shot? For most people my age the school day dictated our location. I sat in a sixth grade classroom in upstate New York preparing…

Occasionally the editor does take a vacation and needs the staff to fill in with editorial (no name, this is the newspaper’s thoughts) comments. This is the one I wrote for Nov. 7, 2013. Let there be reason and calmness in the midst of the hype and hysteria following the first steps taken for the…

Each fall, my husband and I look forward to the one night when an onslaught of little beggars come knocking at our door. Seeing our lit porch light, the children know that we wait to add to their fall stash of candy. Fortunately for us, we live on a street quite popular with parents on…