As published on June 18, 2022 on USA Today and later msn, the below opinion article is the original full version that was edited down for format. The first time I saw my…
We all start out so unabashedly unashamed. Whatever makes us different we regard without concern of how others might be making assumptions about us. Then it all changes. Someone. Somehow. Sometime.…
We all start out so unabashedly unashamed. Whatever makes us different we regard without concern of how others might be making assumptions about us. Then it all changes. Someone. Somehow.…
October 1973 Only four years old, to me the chance to play with my friend Daniel Shapiro with my two brothers and his siblings in a bomb shelter while living in a suburb…
We all start out so unabashedly unashamed. Whatever makes us different we regard without concern of how others might be making assumptions about us. Then it all changes. Someone. Somehow.…
We all start out so unabashedly unashamed. Whatever makes us unique, different, special we regard without concern; we flaunt without a care. Then, we (or our child) change. Someone. Somehow.…
On Rosh Hashanah it is written, on Yom Kippur it is sealed, how many will leave this world and how many shall be born into it, who will live and who will die.…
Preface July 1986 I looked around and waited until the pool manager, Scott Lopeman, walked past me and into the clubhouse before taking off my shoes and rushing quickly to the pool diving…
We all arrive so unabashedly unashamed. Whatever makes us unique….different…special –we regard without concern. We flaunt without a care. Then, we change. Someone. Somehow. Sometime. Something. We find ourselves…
Preface March 1981 You could feel the excitement in the air. During recess earlier in the week, some of the boys decided it would be so much fun if we, the entire…
Preface September 1976 “C’mon Meg, you can try this pair on!”I was in 2nd grade and my family and I had just moved to Islamabad, Pakistan. For the first two weeks, we lived…
Preface September 1977 “I’ll do it. I’ll take Snowball home.”It was the first day of school, and my teacher, Mrs. Applebee at Yankee Ridge elementary in Urbana, IL had just surprised us…
In 2017 the Chinese Horoscope includes the Zodiac sign of the Goat. The Goat has the qualities of her defects, and the defects of her qualities; she’s very intelligent, insightful and visionary. Though…