Warsaw, Poland 1943 I am three years old, living in Warsaw with my mother under false identity as a Catholic trying to survive the hunt for Jews by the German occupiers. We have a one-room apartment, which serves as bedroom, dining room and living room. When the weather is nice, […]
Childhood
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When we were kids back in the 1950’s, Ocean City, Maryland was not the hub it is today. Everyone went to Atlantic City, New Jersey, which is what our family did every year for a three-day weekend vacation. Later in the summer, my parents would return for a weekend by […]
Old Mrs. Berman We lived in a home with a mom who loved animals. When we were kids, my brother, Richard and I wrote a fun song for our mother for one of her birthdays. It went like this: “Old Mrs. Berman had a home / E.I. E.I. O! / […]
Formative Years: 1954-1965 We didn’t have furry pets when I was a child. When my sister Margo asked for a dog (she would have been happy with a pony, too), Mom said, “No.” The excuse was that mom worked and had no time to take care of a pet. Additionally, […]
The purpose of this vignette is to give a humorous example of what I believe is a not so uncommon phenomenon: old habits don’t die, pun intended. My mother died in the summer of 1990. I was born in 1947 and grew up in the Flatbush section of the borough […]
“But I copied it off the board,” I cried as my father tried to help me with my homework. “Linda,” my father said, “There’s no such word as “c-f-t-a.” My lower lip started to quiver. “But Daddy, the teacher wouldn’t put it on the board if there was no such […]