I just updated my Skype client and was using it to talk with the grandgirls. I have to say, the experience is darned good. But then, they both started talking with me and everyone was happy! Then Macy wanted to show me something special: The girls brought up Hawaii — where we all plan to…
This hand-crafted purse reminded me of a leatherworking course my Mom, sister and I took when living in Elizabeth City, NC. I’m pretty sure we did it under the auspices of the US Navy, in the on-base “hobby shop” they provided to officers “and their dependents.”
Steph’s folks grew up in Maine and the culture of that state permeated their family life, even though Steph and her siblings spent their entire lives in Hamden, CT, where Steph’s father, Paul Kittredge, was a professor at Quinnipiac College. Steph’s mother, Maude Helson Kittredge, also grew up in Portland. So there were lots…
Last weekend, the family was on pins and needles as we learned that Wolfe Glick, who is my neice’s 15 year old son, was advancing nicely in the Pokemon video game Championship Series. A couple weeks before that, he had won the regional competition and gotten the opportunity to go to “nationals” — where kids…
My great-nephew, Wolfe Glick, won the US championship for the Pokemon videogame tourney last month, after winning the regional tourney earlier this year. As US champion, he and his Mom got a paid trip to the “Worlds” – the tournament to determine the overall champion. Because the international tourney is held in San Diego this…
On October 22, 2016, just before noon, I arrived at the NYU Medical Center in Manhattan. What happened next is something I hadn’t seen in 30 years: the birth of a baby.
