After due deliberation, my sister said her mother was definitely not an alcoholic. On the other hand, I was fairly certain mine was....

Last time I told you about house and trashcan fires. This time I want to tell you about the stove, fire reflections on the wall, hook and...

My mother gave birth to two sets of twins by C-section and came home with one baby girl each time. This is not as tragic as it sounds. ...

Yesterday I noticed a light bulb needed replacing in a ceiling light fixture. This is easy to do. You get on a step-stool, unscrew the...

Previously I told you about how I celebrate Easter now, but what I meant to tell you about was how I celebrated Easter when I was a child....

Every Easter Sunday for the past 5 years, this Jew goes with her Jewish daughter, Catholic son-in-law, and a host of Italian Catholics,...

Mornings are often hard for me. I used to think I was a morning person. That’s because we had 6 people living in a house with one toilet...

It’s been my recent observation that western women can be divided into two camps: those that love dinnerware and those that are mildly...

Throughout these meandering memoirs, I’m quite certain I’m going to paint my former husbands in less than flattering terms. Before I...

Nora Ephron felt bad about her neck. I was reading her book of that name for the second time, thanks to my daughter who gifted it to me...

The brain gets imprinted when you least expect it. If I’m quiet I can still hear the tick-tock of my childhood alarm clock. It was one of...

After wandering around the house looking for something to do, I drove to Azusa…which is not named after A-to-Z-in the USA, never mind...

For years, people have been telling me I need to write down the stories I tell about my life. This happens whenever I go on a...

Leonard Nimoy died before I got the chance to tell him the two stories I’d been saving to share in person; stories that proved he’d...