My partner’s parents, Duckie and Charles, come down from New Jersey to visit us for a week every year. In their late 70’s, they are lovely people, diffident and self-effacing; they truly live in fear of being a burden or imposing on us. Whenever they visit we explain that they should make themselves at […]
One of my favorite childhood memories is of the annual broadcast of “The Wizard of Oz.” It was usually shown on a Saturday night and our rich neighbors, the Clancys, who had two daughters the same age as my brother and me, always invited us over to watch it on their color TV. My mom
I always assumed that “love at first sight” was a concept manufactured by Lifetime television and sold exclusively to heavy, middle-aged women, the kind who live alone with many cats. And then I met Ellie and realized that I am a craven fool.
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My siblings and I grew up in a world of rules. We ate our vegetables and remembered not to use the good towels. We went to Mass. We made our beds and hung up our clothes and cleared the table. While some of my parents’ rules made perfect sense: “Be home before the streetlights come
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