October 11, 2017
I onced asked my granddaughter what she would say when people asked what she remembered about her grandmother. I expected her to say something like, “she taught me how to knit;” or, “she made the most delicious cream cheese French toast.”
October 11, 2017
Every April she gets a year older. Every April there is a party for the people celebrating that accomplishment. In this case the birthday girl is not taken out, rather the party is brought to her.
October 9, 2017
If you've ever read Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past" you will understand where I'm going with this. Proust's narrator takes a bite of a madeleine and is instantly transported to another time and place in which he reunites with all the characters and places and events of his far-away past.
August 16, 2017
My mother could taste something, figure out the ingredients and then put it back together. She had the gift of tasting something and knowing exactly what ingredient was missing and how much to add.