by Jody | Family, Human Condition
My grandmother had a little side business baking angel food cakes. She used to send me to the creamery, which was right up the street and around the corner from her house. I didn’t have to cross a single street, so I could go alone, the coins in my pocket to pay...
by Jody | Family, Human Condition
When my kids were young, my daughter described her dreams as “night movies.” I liked the term, and tucked it away for future use. I usually don’t remember dreams, but I have had a couple that were more revelations than post-pizza epiphanies. Last...
by Jody | Arizona Life, Family
Friday Lunch We bought a sandwich today, to send off the threadbare week. I needed the break more than the food, and we picked a run of the mill place to sit for awhile.There were two women — sisters, I think — and one very young little boy seated between...
by Jody | Arizona Life, Family, Human Condition
We observed the holiday for two days this year — on Sunday and Monday. Joe was able to get home for the weekend, and we all spent time in the pool and sitting around talking and eating. It was an informal, virtually unplanned, and absolutely organic period of...
by Jody | Arizona Life, Family, Human Condition
I prefer small cafes and neighborhood diners to “good” restaurants, and David knows this. So we celebrated Mother’s Day at a local place that is a short drive from where we live. It was a sunny day, and it was heating up fast. On the bus stop in...
by Jody | Family, Human Condition
When I started college in the 1960s, birth control was not available anywhere from anyone for any reason, unless you were married. Period. The pill had been released to the public, but the public needed to be in conventional unions sanctioned by society in general....
