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Pop-Pop: A Grand for All Ages
By Amanda Koehler
My Pop-Pop called me this week. “So, my girlfriend is pregnant,” he said, sighing.” But I’m not the father!” That “girlfriend” he was talking about is Jersey Shore’s “Snooki.”
There you are one day, innocently applying mascara at your lighted magnifying mirror, when it finally—inevitably—hits home: that woman looking back at you has logged a lot of decades. Yep, you really have reached the grandmother time of life.
Once your children have children, it’s hard to fool even yourself into thinking [...]
I saw him leave his parents’ side, a mischievous smile playing about his lips. Glancing back over his shoulder to see if his absence had been discovered, he quickly disappeared into the crowd. I followed. I adore little boys. I love their bright, inquisitive eyes, their fearlessness, their sense of adventure; their [...]
When my grandmother, Esther Nisenthal Krinitz, arrived as a refugee in the United States in 1949, she brought little more with her than a few pocket photos and memories of her family and life in Poland before the war. She was a survivor of the Holocaust and she’d lost nearly everything she’d ever loved.
Remember the good old days before technology invaded nearly every part of your life?
Face-to-face conversations were a common occurrence, and nobody wore little buds in their ears. Back then the majority of drivers actually kept their eyes on the road, and there wasn’t some disembodied voice commanding you to take a left [...]
Easter Sundays are a big deal for many Catholics. I can remember my mother fixing my younger sister and I up in matching red corduroy dresses. We were two and four and dressed alike for most of our [...]
My grandmother died in January 2012 at the age of 98. I had the privilege of writing her obituary. As I finished it, I was struck by how little it said about her force in my life. We had an unusual bond. I came to live with my [...]
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