It’s beginning to look a lot like … Christmas movies. Especially with people stuck at home because of the coronavirus, an awful lot of families will be watching a lot of holiday movies, both good and bad. In recent years, too many people have been trying to qualify their favorite action movies as Christmas movies …
Most of my memories of Thanksgiving tend toward the generic. I remember last year in Guatemala and I remember 1974 in Columbus, Ohio. More generically pleasant memories are the dozen or so years when Nicole, Pauline, Virgile and I went to the Thanksgiving buffet at the wonderful Twin Palms restaurant in Pasadena, California. Last year …
It’s beginning to look a lot like … like what? This Thursday will be Thanksgiving, but we’re being asked not to hold traditional big family celebrations because of the coronavirus. Otherwise the holiday song will change from “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” to “Grandpa Got Wiped out by a Virus.” Actually, the day …
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 …
