People often ask me how I ended up in Evanston- with an undertone that suggests it's a bad thing.  While that might be the subject for a...

 A few weeks ago I was in Macy's with my mother.  We were standing on the escalator going down when she started to sway and get faint.  ...

7:15p and I finally smile tonight, about three blocks from home, because I remember that waiting in the fridge is (a bottle of wine) and a T...

I woke up to the phone ringing this morning, and before seeing who the caller was I opted to retreat back under the covers for a few more mo...

It's been 14 weeks...or three months...or 100 days since my father died in the early morning hours of June 19th, 2012.  I don't know...

"Today is Friday...Fish Day Friday, is everybody happy, then I must say!"  So says one of my residents, but she also says the same...

I remember sitting in a friend's kitchen in the week before Dad died.  It was 7:30p, she was making soup, we were drinking wine and eati...

It's 9:34p on Friday night and I'm looking around the apartment.  I really should clean, or at least "straighten up," but ...

Random musings: 43 days.  How has the time passed since Dad died?  I don't remember any of it. I should really go to the beach.  1...