To say that my mother made a big deal out of birthdays would be an understatement. Every year for my birthday, she’d put together an enormous feast — homemade meatballs, a roasted turkey, cold cuts, potato salad, a watermelon boat filled with fresh fruit and at least two kinds of cake — all for the…
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Pens, Lost and Found
All my life, I wanted a nice pen. My father had a golden Cross pen and pencil set, and I just loved it. The weight conferred a sense of importance upon anything written with it, from my fourth grade Social Studies paper to my college applications. When I graduated from high school, I asked for…
What I Did On My One Day Vacation
As I sit here listening to the clock tick in an otherwise quiet house, I’m marveling at the fact that I took the day off — most of it, anyway — and the world didn’t end. Aside from being on an island beach somewhere, this day was probably as close to ideal as it could…