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The first time you hold them, you actually do count fingers and toes. Who knew? You trace the swirls of those soft, sweet, pink ears. The downy cheeks, the lashes, the button nose, the rosebud mouth, all go into your permanent file, memorized forever. The details are a little different for each child, but they are equally indelible. In your heart, they are perfection.  Read more >

Just when I thought I had nothing to write about, along comes another campaign faux pas. I am so grateful for people who say stupid things.I cannot believe in 2012 this is still a hot button issue.A Democratic ‘strategist’ named Hilary Rosen made the off-handed remark that Ann Romney was not qualified to discuss the economy because she had “never worked a day in her life”.Even I, someone notorious for putting my foot in my mouth, would be hard pressed to come up with a more idiotic statement than that.  Read more >

Jacqueline was classical music's darling in the 1960's. It seemed there were nothing but good things ahead. Then when she was 26, she began to notice a lack of sensation in her fingers and elsewhere in her body. She continued to play, but experienced more and more difficulty. Eventually, she would be diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Despite attempts to defy the disease, she played her final public concert at the age of 28, and succumbed 14 years later, at 42.  Read more >

This is a football.This is a little boy.    Read more >

My mother passed away yesterday afternoon, far from where I live, in her sister’s home in Delaware.  Two of her sisters were with her, but none of her children.  Nor her husband.  The reasons are a long story, as complicated and sad as my mother herself.  Read more >