Pushing on a Rope
Flashback Friday
Flashback Friday — It Must be Love
Flashback today to Oct. 1, 1961, my parents’ wedding anniversary. Fifty-two years later, they’re still going strong, having weathered all manner of crazy obstacles life has a way of throwing at us all. When I was small, it was a huge thrill to flip through their wedding album, its black-and-white chronicle somehow exciting and exotic … Continue reading
Flashback Friday — 30 Winks
This is one of those pictures that really takes me back. Looking at it, I can just about feel this sleeping infant Catherine in my arms, smell the sweet baby scent of her hair, remember my quandary over whether I could manage to get up off the couch and transfer her to the crib without … Continue reading
Flashback Friday — Reading is Fundamental
The emails are coming in from Catherine’s teachers in advance of Tuesday’s Back to School night. Her Honors World Lit teacher let us know the kids had just finished Gilgamesh, and that they liked it more than they had expected. This kind of class is right up my alley and I can’t wait to hear … Continue reading
Flashback Friday — Let’s Dance
I’ve only got a few hours (read 3 pm) until I’m in biiiiiig trouble for this post, but once I stumbled on these photos there was no stopping me. Apologies for the lousy photography. I was already hiding in dark corners, trying not to be too embarrassing when I took these, six years ago. It … Continue reading
Flashback Friday — Give us a Kiss
Sunday is Grandparents Day, but Catherine needs no special Hallmark nudge to mark the occasion. I’ve probably told you this before, but when she was little, the sun rose and set on my father. Grandpa was IT. Didn’t matter who else was there, whether Sam and Tilly (my parents’ dogs) were trying to angle their … Continue reading
Flashback Friday — A Day to Celebrate
Flashback to my nephew, Nicky, who turns 19 today. This photo is of him and Catherine, probably about 10 years ago, following a Mother’s Day or birthday meal for my mother-in-law at a restaurant on Greenwich Avenue. As you can tell, Nicky has always been mad for Catherine, right from the day she was born. … Continue reading
Flashback Friday — Nick of Time
Looking back today at my late father-in-law, Nick, who would have been 95 this past Wednesday. Here he is with Basil. There’s no date on the photo, but Basil thinks it was taken outside their then-home in Stamford, CT, in the late 1950s. It’s strange to see Nick so serious in this photo, for during … Continue reading
Flashback Friday — Pretty as a picture
Catherine’s senior portrait is Wednesday. She’s wrapped up in hair and makeup, and will surely take some of her hard-earned babysitting money and drag me to the mall for a new shirt when we get home from our Massachusetts college visits this weekend. Of course, this week I had to go back in time to … Continue reading
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