The Creation When my daughter, Laura, was five years old and step-daughter, Tracy, was seven, my then husband, Ted, made a doll house out of wood for each of them. The girls were allowed to choose what the interior design would be for their house. All three of them went […]
Sock, sock, sock, poor deserted sock. Everyone laments his missing mate. No one thinks about us, the many lonely knee-highs. We don’t get any respect. We are thrown individually and carelessly into a drawer without our mates. Where there are piles of different shades of tan, grey, black, sheer and […]
I’m hiding, I’m hidingbut no one knows where.They’ve looked all aroundand see me nowhere. They’ve checked in the dresser,but I was not theretrapped in a nightgownor some underwear. They looked in the dryerwhere some laundry lies.But I wouldn’t hidewhere the air is so dry. They thought I might bein the […]
I found it! I found it!After missing for one yearThe matching orange sport sockWhich to me was very dear. I looked high and low for it.It could have been anywhere.Inside another dresser drawer?Trapped in my clean underwear? Or maybe lost in the dryer.Where do those darn socks go?Perhaps to some […]
Happy birthday, Israel! You are now 74 years young and have accomplished so much in so few years. You have always been part of my life. Remember Jewish National Fund tzedakah (charity) boxes? My pennies, nickels and dimes were collected religiously so that you could plant trees and turn a desert […]
By Ken Creeger My father was a tool man. He loved his tools and used them every day in his work and when needed at home. They fit perfectly in his hands and were extensions of his fingers. A talented self-taught mechanic, he could fix nearly anything mechanical, including diagnosing […]
On Becoming a Teen Today it is your birthday, dear.Thirteen years you are.You’re now entering teenage-hood,the most confusing years, by far. A time of real uncertainty—You’re neither adult nor child.You want so much to be grown up.Sometimes your thoughts run wild. At times, I know you think I’m mean.Perhaps I […]