FernApr 52 minMuseum KarmaA week ago or so, I was down in Tennessee visiting Glenn and Jenny and my granddogs, Rocket and Hank. Although I brought the darn snow...
FernJan 72 minSealed for ProtectionThe Chap Stick package of three tubes was sealed thoroughly; clear plastic glued against cardboard (or as they say in retail,...
FernNov 30, 20212 minA Proustian MomentWhenever I eat coffee yogurt I think of Nancy Guglielmo. Her desk was situated across the aisle from mine, and I can still see her long...
FernSep 19, 20213 minChewing Lips on the CBEFlashback Memory from March 2018 Long Islanders have commuter nerves of steel. Upstaters like me, not so much. A wall of eighteen...
FernAug 28, 20214 minConfession TimeThe Setting: Julie’s Sweet Shop, College Point, NY Situated a few blocks from St. Agnes High School. The Time: 1965 It was an after...
FernJul 20, 20212 minCars and Trucks and Things that Drive Me CrazyWhen my son was little, Richard Scarry’s “Cars and Trucks and Things that Go” was his favorite book and bedtime was often a wild ride...
FernJun 22, 20213 minRedux and RantMy May 5th blog, Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow, apparently experienced a major snafu, and most of you never received it. No worries, just...
FernMay 9, 20213 minHair Today, Gone TomorrowIt’s nothing I didn’t expect. Uh, oh, double negative. I expected it, yes I did. The paperwork given before commencing chemo treatments...
FernApr 5, 20212 minThe Three W'sIt didn't take long, after I emerged from my surgical stupor, to understand that the three W's were considered to be of primo concern to...
FernMar 13, 20211 minWearin' of the GreenWednesday, March 17th is St. Patrick's Day and one of my favorite Holidays (the other one being Halloween.) Each year, my memories trail...
FernFeb 2, 20212 minFragrant FlashbacksScents go straight to the brain's smell center, known as the olfactory bulb. The olfactory bulb is connected to the amygdala and...
FernJan 5, 20212 minMissingThe day after a visit to a friend’s porch for ‘porchtails’ (an ingenious pandemically fabricated word that she coined to substitute for...
FernDec 4, 20203 minBench SittingI sat on a wooden bench yesterday outside the Woodstock Library, a bench set upon the wide expanse of green lawn, directly opposite a...
FernNov 10, 20203 minHooked on BBSI have a confession. In the past month I’ve become hooked on The Great British Baking Show. I know, I know, there’s a ton of cooking...
FernOct 28, 20202 minOiche Shamhna (Ee-ha How-na-hunna-ghweev, pronounced in Gaelic) Or, as we say here in the U.S. - Happy Halloween! Halloween, a time for spooky costumes...
FernSep 24, 20202 minTo Bead or not to Bead (Adornment During a Pandemic) A self-styled routine had been established for ‘decktails’ at each other’s houses every couple of weeks. In...
FernAug 26, 20204 minBlood on the TracksOn a Saturday morning, in the Summer of 1992, I walked down Tinker Street to the Woodstock Library to check out the Book Sale in the...
FernJul 14, 20203 minMah Jong LadiesGuest Blogger Laurie Deutsch Mozian lives and writes in Ulster County, NY. "I wrote this piece in celebration of my new Mah-Jong set that...
FernJun 5, 20202 minWholly CommunionFor the last month I, like many others, have been out of work (stupid pandemic). Beginning on the first of May, facing a potential...
FernMay 8, 20202 minBenny!I decided to blog about what has brought me joy the past few weeks. And that would be…Benny! That is what I say when he lands on the bare...