Another guest post tonight, from my friend Jackie Widen: I miss letters. Rather, I miss sending AND receiving letters in the mail, real letters on stationery. Our cultural communication has been reduced to tweets, posts, texts, emails and Facebook messages. Another part of growing older is remembering and cherishing this simpler method of communication. I guess… Continue reading Love Letters
Category: Mom stories
Anxiety
Nearly two years ago, I sat with my younger sister at the airport in Houston, Texas waiting for our respective flights. She was going back home to New Jersey, and I was headed back to California. While waiting, she passed the time browsing SAT prep sites on her iPad. Her oldest child, my nephew, was… Continue reading Anxiety
Moving Mom
Another guest blog tonight from my friend Jackie–I can certainly relate and I know many of you can too! My Mother turns 90 next month. She is selling her house of 28 years and moving in with us. It’s official: I am a grown-up. Time is a funny thing. I remember I couldn’t… Continue reading Moving Mom
Mel’s Posh Junk
With apologies to any of the really nice people who live in Aspen, Colorado I admit it—I have a little bit of an eBay habit. May I be permitted to say that cruising eBay helps me relax after a long day at the office? I have all my favorite searches set to notify me if… Continue reading Mel’s Posh Junk
There’s Hope For The Rest of Us
This morning I had the opportunity to speak about radiation oncology before a group of high school girls in a program called BeWISE, which stands for Be a Woman In Science and Engineering. The organizer of this morning’s seminar had purposely chosen an all- woman faculty, so that the students would get an opportunity to… Continue reading There’s Hope For The Rest of Us
Nina
Sometimes you just get lucky. When I was pregnant with my first child, during my radiation oncology residency, we had a guy living in the apartment over our garage, which we liked to refer to as “the carriage house.” He was a dog trainer by trade, and in his spare time he played softball in… Continue reading Nina
Happy Mother’s Day
They lied to us, they did–Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem and all the others who told us back in the 60’s and 70’s that we could have it all. Or maybe they weren’t exactly lying to the impressionable girls graduating from high school and like me, beginning their college and subsequent careers as professionals in… Continue reading Happy Mother’s Day
Empty Nest
My sister was here recently to help me out while my father was in the hospital. She is much kinder and more patient than I am, so I was very grateful for her help. She is leaving to go home to New Jersey tomorrow. Tonight before dinner we took the deerhounds for a walk. In… Continue reading Empty Nest
Closing up Shop
They say that as we age, time accelerates. Those endless waits for summer vacations, Christmas and our birthdays that we experienced at age six, become a mere blink of an eye at age sixty. And if you’re approaching sixty, you will remember, like I do, those old Kodak commercials: “Turn around, turn around, turn around… Continue reading Closing up Shop
Back to the Future
I am in Houston, Texas today—the place where I grew up. From the moment I got off the plane on Wednesday, I had a strong sense of déjà vu—the small town feel of Hobby Airport, the banners welcoming me to the Houston Fat Stock Show and Rodeo, the drive to the Texas Medical Center where… Continue reading Back to the Future