Category Archives: Letters To My Granddaughters

Dear Chloe and Astrid, Just wanted to tell you about another one of my mementos you will be deciding about when I am gone – whether to keep or do away with. It’s the plate where 8 figures are holding hands in a circle: I call them Dansing Girls. I got this plate in 1983,Continue reading “DANSING GIRLS”

Dear Chloe and Astrid, I shared a tribute to my fathers with you some time ago, and it is high time that I do the same for my mothers. This time the plural refers to my mother and two grandmothers and also my mother-in law, Francine. Just as with father figures, “mothering” is a broadContinue reading “A TRIBUTE TO MY MOTHERS”

“No,” I told my granddaughters Chloe and Astrid, “this is not a picture, it’s an icon.” I know that the “icons” on their tablets or smart phones don’t look like that at all, and that got me wondering. My husband Rick and I have been talking about our Final Exit plans, and what would happenContinue reading “THE ICON”

Dear Chloe and Astrid, When you check out the pictures on my bookshelf, there are several people there you may not recognize. Just the same, I don’t want them to be forgotten. Not only because they were important in my life, but also because they came from obscure or faraway places – places we don’tContinue reading “A TRIBUTE TO MY THREE FATHERS”