Tag Archives: family After years of working in food retail I automatically start a Thanksgiving Day countdown every November. Much the way the end of August gets people ready for new marble notebooks and freshly sharpened pencils. This is also the first year in a few that I’m not participating in a month-long blog challenge, so I thought […]  Stuffed cabbage is one of my childhood favorites. My mom made hers with a secret ingredient; ginger snaps. I found the recipe in a spiral bound cookbook that was put out by the Nassau Community Temple Sisterhood group cookbook. The book is probably from the 1960’s, but I can’t be sure because the cover (as […]  Fathers’ Day has come and gone, and I barely registered the day; my father has been dead for almost 20 years, and of course I think of him, but not any more or less on Fathers’ Day. I don’t recall making a particular fuss over him when he was alive; he didn’t really like that […]  For most of the last year my daughter and I have been watching the Gilmore Girls, and last week we started the final season. Of course we’re excited about the new episodes slated to air later this year on Netflix, but we’re sad about reaching the end of something that has become an important part of our mother-daughter conversation. […]  One of my favorite poems is Elizabeth Bishop’s One Art, a lesson on lost things. For me there have been many things, places and people dropped or misplaced long before I noticed their absence as well as those lost suddenly, leaving rough, tender places that I had to protect. I clearly recall the moment I lost my […] |
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