Memories of—and Lessons Learned from—my Mother, Ottilie Tag
January 3, 2021 1:21 am 3 CommentsMy mother, Ottilie Tag, known to her friends as Tillie, died of natural causes not related to COVID this past... View Article
My mother, Ottilie Tag, known to her friends as Tillie, died of natural causes not related to COVID this past... View Article
I am writing this blog to summarize my recent experience trying to find a literary agent to market my... View Article
I met Becky in early 1983. I was thirty-seven years old at the time, and my parents were convinced... View Article
We remember things differently, you and I. What stands out to one person from the distant past means nothing to... View Article
They call it coronavirus, a genetic aberration, a mutation damnation, an intimidation plaguing the world’s civilization. How long... View Article
Every year when Veteran’s Day rolls around, I think of my Uncle Gus Kern, who died in World War II.... View Article
My wife—AKA Becky—went to her high school reunion: rah-rah! to which she invited me, avoiding hints of complicity. (ha ha)... View Article
I attended my high school reunion, it happened last week: we’d graduated fifty-five years earlier, an amazing streak. It was... View Article
I’ve made an acquaintance named Jayne—not her real name— who’s seen troubles a plenty, that have set her life aflame.... View Article
At five years, petite and slender, she saw something more; she wondered, searched her brain for not having seen... View Article