My hubby and I just heard this great old joke in the movie, Belfast. Super movie, by the way!
mothers
“But I’m a Mother!”
Twenty-four-year-old me delivered that line with as much indignation as I could muster. I was at the ticket counter to see a movie, “Easy Rider,” which had just opened. It had a restrictive rating – only those who were 18+ years old could see it.
Windows on the Past – Motherhood pics 1970-75…
Reminiscing with time on my hands…
Friday Follies #183 – deferred to next week, due to…
…an early visit for Mother’s Day from…
Food, Glorious Food!
I can safely say, having grown up in a Jewish family, that Jews are into food in a big way. As the old joke says, every Jewish holiday can be summed up thusly: “They attacked us, we won, let’s eat!”
A Letter to Lily June on her First Birthday
Dear Lily June,
At the risk of appropriating your mother’s salutation for her own online letters to you, just let me say that I’m responding in a humble way to her request for letters – letters to be addressed to you, in honour of your upcoming first birthday.
Spots
It’s winter. It’s a time of snow, it’s a time of sleet. It’s a time of ice, it’s a time of… sickness!
No More Doilies
About 20 years ago I started an article on mothers and daughters with the following:
Forever Cherished in my Heart

1912 – 2005
I wrote this eulogy for my mother’s funeral 10 years ago; my thoughts and feelings are exactly the same today as they were then. If anything, the love I feel for her now is even stronger, steeped as it is in the warmth of ten years’ worth of remembering. Mom, this is for you.
Learning to Drive… Again. Thanks, Ma!
This is a modest tribute to my sweet, wise mother, who passed away almost ten years ago. I miss her every day.