Our neighbor is gone. It was out of the blue, so sudden we were still attempting to carry on email conversations with her. Her silence…
Category: Ancestry
In 2017, I traveled back to Allentown, Pennsylvania, to lay my mother to rest. As we visited places I had known during my childhood, I…
Anamnesis, Part 3: The Perfidy of Presentism
Posted in Anamnesis, Ancestry, and Ideological Intolerence
California is home to the most recognized of oldest living things in the world, the Giant Sequoia. If you visit the grove in Muir Woods…
“I wished I had asked, before it was too late.” How many of us have heard this? How many of us have said this? How…
What does it mean to be remarkable? Merriam-Webster defines remarkable as: “Worthy of being or likely to be noticed especially as being uncommon or extraordinary”…
It is often said: “You die twice. First when you stop breathing. Second when somebody mentions your name for the last time.” The origin of…
The real story of my parents’ courtship was hidden in plain sight — under layers and layers of stuff. By the time we moved my…
In 2015, the ghost in the glass came to me after we cleared my parents’ home. When I saw him, I immediately recognized him. The…