Three of the four people in this picture are dead. I think the tree is still alive. The three adults in this picture were born in 1895, 1895 and 1927. I attended the funerals of the first two — my maternal grandparents — and I’m really not 100 percent sure about the third one. The …
It’s difficult enough to name one child. Imagine having to come up with names for three at the same time. Mother Pep came up with Manny. Moe and Jack, a trio that made a lot of money. Donald Duck’s sister — or sister-in-law — came up Huey, Dewey and Louie, who were actually more famous …
I wish I had remembered to write this yesterday. Yesterday was my first grandchild’s birthday. Madison Nicole Kastner was born on Sept. 19, 2008, in Beijing, China. Thanks to her dad, my former son-in-law, I was able to hear her crying over the phone just five minutes after she was born. Ten days later, on …
Are you aware of the most profound thing you ever told someone else? I wasn’t. Until my son told me. When I married Virgile’s mother and became a dad to him and his sister Pauline, I had to acquire a new set of skills at age 42. They had a father, but he was 6,000 …
There are two types of people who will read this, those who know me and those who don’t.
Perhaps more accurately, those who know my writing and those
