Remembering 9-11

  It was a sunny, blue-sky, late summer morning. An ordinary day, September 11, 2001. I’d watched the news and weather on TV earlier, but I was now into my daily routine at home. My husband’s nephew had called to say his wife was in labor, so my husband, who was a...

The MOM Degree

My mother told me that she wanted to go to college and study biology. However, at the time she graduated from high school, most women did not attend college. They got married and raised a family, which she did. (She was married to my dad for 47 years, until his death,...

I Voted

One of my early childhood memories was talking to my father about the presidential election. It must have been 1956, when Eisenhower and Nixon ran for re-election, because I was only a year old in 1952. An airplane had dropped balloons and flyers down on our Long...