Ho ho hurray, hurray…the holidays are over. It will be another year, before I become anxious over family gatherings; wonder if I should make the contribution of my own big holiday meal; fret over if I should buy Christmas gifts even though the…
I am alone so much that I started writing about my life… asking myself questions and answering myself. I am sitting on the edge, on the verge, on the precipice of falling into an old lady’s lap. Mine. My thoughts are solemn: Did…
When Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the 107th justice to the United States Supreme Court on August 10, 1993, she became the second woman to sit on this court (Sandra Day O’Connor was the first), the first Jewish justice since 1969, and…
Lacking I am not sure that I have enough self-discipline for this new life. I am beginning to think that I need a great deal more self control and more will power for this new world I am living…
Haircut or live with it?!!!! Of course I can count, of course I know how old am…did you think I was senile or forgetful. After all I remember everybody’s birthday, my wedding anniversary and the date your husband died and… I just did…
I never seem to fully recover from the long illness and death of my husband. Grief’s appetite (a phrase captured from the poet Annah Sobelman) He possessed my youth.He held title to my beauty.He had the keys to my womb. “The hardest part…
I am the tree I am the wild horse running free I am the caged bear I am the snake ready to strike I am the young boy dissolved by the bomb’s blast I am the mother grieving for her son. I…