By 10:00 in the morning, I was dressed, packed and ready to go, ten minutes early! That’s when the phone rang and the metallic recording said, “This is Southwest Airlines. We regret to inform you that your flight is delayed one hour…” I didn’t listen to the rest because it […]
Linda Miller
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Who Am I to be Loved by You?* I was just an ordinary womanwho’d made myriad mistakes.Then came that fateful nightwhen, it seems, I came awake. We gathered in that cozy loftin a Howard County church.You were the wittiest person thereand caused my heart to lurch. I was just an […]
“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 […]
At age 42, I decided to go to college. I’d been working at Sinai Hospital for 11 years in many capacities: I started as a low level secretary, was promoted to Medical Typist, then Medical Secretary B, and finally Medical Secretary A for the chief of OB/GYN. During this time, […]
We were so lucky as children to have three living grandparents. Every Pesach (Passover), my maternal grandparents hosted our Passover Seder, one of my favorite holidays because I was with my extended family of aunts, uncles and cousins. My grandparents lived in a smallish row house on Shirley Avenue in […]
Introduction: This event occurred over 20 years ago, but I’m writing it now because I was having lunch with my twin grandchildren in celebration of their 15th birthday. They were discussing how happy they are that it’s summer. Not that they don’t like school, but “everyone needs a break.” I […]
Photo: Marlene Wolff Solomon. My little sister, Ellie, sends me a text asking me to make a kugel for her Hanukkah party. Really? She wants me to make something that I must follow a recipe? Does she realize she’s texting Sister #2, not sister #1? “It’s really easy,” the text […]
Dear Heartthrob, “Be still my heart!” That’s what young people say when they fall in lust. At our age, no one says, “Be still my heart.” I mean, really, it could happen! Suppose you say, “be still my heart” and the powers that be take that literally! I’d be a […]
Stuart’s daughter, Meredith, arrived at 5:30 in the morning to drive us to Johns Hopkins Hospital for his hip replacement surgery scheduled for 7:30. Because they would not allow me to enter the hospital due to COVID, coupled with my poor night vision (I mean really! 5:30?), we made these arrangements so I wouldn’t […]