So much excitement – I was a freshman in high school and it was time for our first dance of the year. This took place in the 1950s and it was to be a semiformal dance. This meant the girls wore dressy dresses, nylon stockings and high heels, while the boys would wear suits and […]

Sometime in my long-ago youth I once received a small box of 20 bookplates. They were about the size of a 4 by 5 photo, and each one depicted the same colorful illustration of the Earth divided into two hemispheres. Below the drawing were the words “This book belongs to” and enough space for me […]

Your borrowed ingredients (sugar, flour, eggs) came back to me as a yummy cake. Thanks! But I won’t lend you my wheelbarrow again! You borrowed it last month and returned it just now, wet and muddy. No cake for you! You know that woman at work who always walks down the hall with a stride […]

All of us come into this world with a virtual time bank account allotted to our lives. The quantity of time in each of our accounts varies, but each day we spend 24 hours of the balance we have left. None of us knows exactly the balance of time that remains in our bank. Only […]