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When I was a little girl growing up in a suburb of Queens, New York, dressing for school was very important. My mother w...

It was a dark damp morning in the middle of January. I was about 10 years old, huddled under the blankets of my bed tryi...

In April of 1973, my husband, another couple and I decided to spend Easter week in Grenada, a beautiful island in the Ca...

About 1928 My family used to go to the Jersey Shore in the summer. We had a car with a running board and a spare tire, o...

During WWII, I started my freshman year at an all girls high school in Baltimore, MD. With my father in the Army Enginee...

Fallen in love with the legends of ancient Greece and living Rome, I hopped over to Athens. June 1967 was after the mili...

In the Land That Lies Beyond Erzerum and Trebizond Lived a robber, Rushan Beg As we crossed the 10,000 foot range from ...

6.8 on the Richter scale as Father, my sister and I sat on the floor working a jigsaw -- Mother was in the kitchen maki...

Earth Day, 1970 April 22, 1970 was the first Earth Day. Festivities and protests were planned across the count...

The bus was late. It was my daughter Glynnis’s first day of 6th grade. She had missed the first few days because of a ...

February 26, 1993 My 2 year old daughter and 3 month old son had gone out with a babysitter, Nicole, to find some divers...

Blood Orange I had boarded the plane at Dulles with a dreadful cold. My ears had become clogged and painful and I spent ...