Category: children

  • I Won a Grammy

    And I bet you didn’t even know I could sing or produce records or anything. Well, I can’t and I don’t, but anyway my Grammy was way better, if only slightly taller, than the award they give out. I found out about my Grammy, Phyllis Hersch, the way I’ve heard people find out about winning…

  • Like it was yesterday

    Like it was yesterday

    I remember laying awake in bed the night that our daughter came home from the hospital. She was in a bassinet at the foot of our bed, and Jenn said something like “What if she stops breathing and we can’t hear her?!” What was I worried about? Boyfriends. College tuition bills. The overwhelming responsibility of…

  • Those Were The Days

    My beautiful, talented daughter had some time to create original art on Sunday. While I was doing something (monumentally important, I’m sure) she brought me this picture of “Ima’s house when she was little.” Lovely, right? We’ve been to that neighborhood, and this ain’t a bad representation, actually, not that she was trying for realism.…