Broken Birds – Grown Children Of Holocaust Survivors

What would you do if your mother unexpectedly died, and left the family
residence not divided up equally amongst her five children but entirely to a
single child? You may say, Well it’s her money and she can leave it to
anyone she likes. But is that how you would you feel down deep inside? You’d
been a loyal, [...]

Sorting Out the Past

 

Barring our repression of painful memories which we may be loathe confronting, what does one do with memorabilia of the past whether in the guise of tangible mementos or fond memories?  I have no compunction dredging and revisiting events from the past to reinterpret them from my current vantage point in life.  Selected memories seem to flourish under a patina of nostalgia from the good old days.  I take comfort [...]

Detours after Fifty

For those of us who have had the luxury of retiring, detours off the worn and well-beaten path are inevitable.  For one thing, the frenetic pace of juggling career and home has coasted, now affording us the opportunity to cruise at our own pace wherever our spirit moves us.  Detours through uncharted territory pose their own dilemma, strewn with obstacles and challenges.  [...]

Baby Boomers Or Generation Jones?

Baby Boomer Or Not?
Well I always thought I was considered part of the baby boomer generation. The baby boomers were part of the post World War II generation. However, baby boomer memories like the 60’s and Happy Days left me out because I was born very late in the 1950’s, and I enjoyed the fabulous [...]