Seventeen years after the movie You’ve Got Mail opened in movie theaters, I still love the sound of a new text message arriving on my phone. On days when I have no plans, it is totally usual not to talk to another person until my husband returns home in the evening….
My mom and I spent 30+ days at the beach (we call it ‘the shore’) every year for 30 years. We would go not just in the summer, but in the spring and fall as well. It was home away from home. My mom passed away three years ago next…
Sometimes I am angrier when I find something that I’ve lost than when I lost it in the first place.
You never know what lies underneath until you let it cool, then flip it over. Sometimes it’s what you expected, sometimes you get a happy surprise. And sometimes the surprise is an ugly mess.
You would think that once you wake up blind, everything else would be gravy. But what I find is that now I stress when I have something coming up on the calendar, and this never happened before the loss. These things that I’m referring to are fun, good things and…
When my Nana passed away in 1996, at the age of 95, I gladly brought her china and china cabinet home with me. Today when my two friends came over for lunch, I decided to set the table with Nana’s dishes. There was no Christmas tree in sight, no Easter…
As a result of my vision loss, I am unable to drive. I live in the suburbs, so public transportation is not an option. My husband isn’t always able to leave work to drive me, so I have to ask my friends. They all continually offer to be my chaufferettes,…
