Nine Things I’m Grateful for During COVID.
When I set out to write this article, my plan was to call it “Ten Things I’m Grateful for,” which has a much nicer ring to it…but I couldn’t come up with ten. Where this damned virus is concerned, it’s not easy to find those silver linings inside the cloud. Anyway, here goes… Frontline workers. […]
On My Mother’s 100th Birthday…Remembering Her as She Was.
When people hear that I had a parent who suffered from Alzheimer’s Disease, they sometimes ask, “After they’re gone, how long does it take to remember them the way they were before?” Everyone has a different timetable—but for me, the answer is about five years. It took until now, the month when she would have […]