My mother was a snob. A literary snob, the worst kind. She never had to resort to physical force in raising us but instead used a variety of reprimands that when delivered with her proper dose of sheer disdain were enough to squash any bad behavior in its tracks. When we would do something unladylike […]
Sorry, But I Hate Valentine’s Day
I’ve never been much of a fan of Valentine’s Day. Once a holiday becomes “official,” to me it smacks of commercialism and starts to turn into a one-up kind of thing. Who got the best flowers. Who gave the best chocolates. Whose husband/significant other got them the best something or other. Who had the most […]
Digging Deep To Find A Reason To Be Grateful This Winter
This platter sits on our family room fireplace mantel. I bought it one day about 2 years ago in a store downtown after I saw it in the window. It seemed to speak directly to me and I bought it on the spot. It’s been staring me in the face for the past […]
My Family Watched The Beatles First Appearance On The Ed Sullivan Show Together
The Beatles first appearance on The Ed Sullivan show was Sunday, February 9, 1964 at 8:00 pm. There were over 70 million viewers that night and my sisters, parents and I were all part of that momentous TV viewing occasion. I was 7 years old. It was a night that we had been looking forward […]
Making the Effort To Walk To Church In A Blizzard and Then Getting Dissed By The Priest’s Sermon
This was a post I originally wrote on February 2, 2011 which I thought I’d revisit and dust off. Very deja vu and apropos. All of this snow has me thinking about when we were kids, because it sure seemed like we had a lot of snow days back then. In particular, I remember one […]
How I Shaved My Head When I Was Going Through Chemo For Breast Cancer
Because I started out blogging about my breast cancer experience on a site called Caringbridge, I never really shared what I went through with my chemotherapy treatments on this blog. My Left Breast starts at my mastectomy and reconstruction, after I’d finished all my chemotherapy. Today I’m uploading a caringbridge post from April 28, 2010 which […]