This is what the sock is REALLY thinking! Her feet are stinky, old and smellyWith corns, calluses and bunions.Why would I want to live there?I’m tired of smelling like onions! Some days they hurt and ache.Some days they make her sad!Her shoes no longer fit so good,Which really makes her […]
Eileen Creeger
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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 […]
Becoming parents isn’t always as easy as you think. The call It was early September 1982, just after Labor Day. I was at Sinai Hospital, post-op four days bowel resection due to a blockage. Nasal gastric tube down the throat, fuzzy-headed from anesthesia and doped up on pain meds. That’s […]
Snow in Baltimore is an experience, a bit meshugah (crazy) and always filled with nuttiness. Just hearing the word “snow” in the forecast is enough to start a stampede to the grocery store. I don’t recall this phenomenon growing up. Weather forecasting was not as precise back then, so maybe we rolled […]
A woman of valor who can find? For her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband safely trusts in her, And he has no lack of gain. She does him good and not evil all the days of her life. Proverbs 31:10–31 How many of us have […]
“Bah, humbug!” exclaims Ebenezer Scrooge, in Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” Move over, Ebenezer, because I’m on your side! It’s not that I have anything against Christmas. After all, my parents drove us kids down Eastern Avenue in Baltimore to see the beautiful lights on display in the neighborhood windows. […]
The crows come in winterCongregate in my treetops.Their cawing is quite annoyingThey don’t know when to stop. They land on our roofEach morning so early.Their claws dance on the shingles.Their demeanor is too surly. They dig in my flowerpotsSpreading dirt everywhere.They do what they wantWithout seeming to care. On trash […]
My father’s menorah has been sitting on top of a high bookcase in our house for many years. When we took it down the other day, unused and hidden, it was covered in a thick layer of dust. This menorah is heavy and cumbersome. Made of solid brass and estimated […]