A Life Well Lived
Always center stage, the star of all life’s dramas and comedies, a 5’1” package of fire and lightning, sharp edges and razor wit, my mother was theater to her fingertips. Today is the first anniversary of her death, the yarzheit, and the complications of our relationship arose from the dichotomy of our being at once [...]
Wedding Photography and Its Assorted Permutations of Hell
As the wheel of the year inexorably rolled through the wet months of winter into the surprisingly soggy season of spring, the distant notes of Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March” grew louder and more insistent with the approach of the bridal season.
Venues, florists, food, and gowns… the beach or the church? Barefoot in the woods, or [...]
Hiding Out From The Third Millennium
Thanks to the joys of syndication there are few Americans– even those born long after the series ended its original run– who are unfamiliar with the fictional town of Mayberry, North Carolina, introduced to us by the long-running “Andy Griffith Show.” It was a quiet, folksy, friendly place in which little of consequence ever happened, [...]