“Why are you ripping the fabric, Granny?” I asked my grandmother as we stood next to a bolt of flowered cotton flannel in the fabric store. We had been walking around trying to choose some fabric for the nightgowns she ... more

When I finished college, I got a job teaching at the high school I graduated from.  Both of my sisters were still students there, so I taught some of their friends, which was a bit awkward.  It was the only ... more

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I just googled Horn and Hardart's, and according to Wikipedia (which one should never be used as an authoritative source, still), Horn and Hardart's was a Philadelphia institution, just like me.
Now, I never knew that, in all the years that ... more

I grew up in the 1950s and 1960s watching my parents play board games with their favorites being backgammon, Scrabble, and cribbage. When I was old enough, I started playing these games too. Playing cribbage taught me how to add ... more

In 1979, at age 25, I became a typing teacher for ninth grade students in Vancouver B.C. “The accidental typing teacher” might be a more appropriate title because this certainly wasn’t planned. I was substitute teaching that year and a ... more