What is a memory you would like to erase? Tempting, isn’t it? If we could scrub out bad memories the way we might change a misspelled word? If we could delete mistakes the way we might remove an extra comma? I don’t know that I would want to erase my […]
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
Before social media and Smartphones, I often forgot to bring my camera on vacations. If I did remember pack one, I forgot to bring it on our daily excursions. If I did remember to bring it on our daily excursions, I forgot to use it. I preferred to write about […]
Estimated reading time: 1 minute
Before I attended my father’s family reunion, I came across Dana Gioia’s “Reunion” through POETRY Magazine. (Gioia has become a recent favorite poet of mine, and Interrogations at Noon appeared in my Books of the Month: April 2013.) “Reunion” resonates with me as my father is the youngest of eleven […]
Estimated reading time: 55 seconds