Posted in May 2015

Being Real

Even in his prime he was nothing fancy.  Built like a teddy bear but with the floppy ears of a dog, “Branigin” was (and remains) my favorite stuffed animal.  While my memory of exactly the day I received him is a little hazy (that does tend to happen after 50 years or so), I think … Continue reading

Leave the Light on For Me…

In many families it seems that various members have their assigned roles…the funny one, the social one, the leader, the “baby”.  A voracious reader and viewer of documentaries from a very young age, my own assigned role has been that of “trivia buff”, “historian” and “keeper of useless information”.  So, in keeping with that tradition … Continue reading