by Jane Pollak | Jul 31, 2014 | Memoir Sketches
We didn’t know that these would be the last words that my 88 year old mother would utter, but it turned out that they were. “Shut up!” she barked at me and my sisters who had congregated in the emergency room of White Plains Hospital. There were...
by Jane Pollak | Jul 28, 2014 | General Wisdom, Memoir Sketches
I knew that I had decorated my last egg when Lindsey became engaged and I wanted to commemorate the occasion, as I had when Rob proposed to Anne, by making a Double Wedding Ring quilt-patterned egg with the couple’s names following the curves of the design. I...
by Jane Pollak | Jul 25, 2014 | Memoir Sketches
At a friend’s 40th birthday party the guest of honor ceremonially opened her gifts, one by one, and acknowledged the person who gave it to her. As she got closer to the gold-wrapped box I’d brought, my heart started to beat more rapidly. Id’ been...
by Jane Pollak | Jul 23, 2014 | Memoir Sketches
Apologies for the lack of paragraphs. I’d prefer to get these up and out by cutting and pasting rather than re-keystroking. I’m not sure there’s ever been a gender attached to this entity, but let’s assume my first love was male. And his name was Sugar.Of...
by Jane Pollak | Jul 22, 2014 | Memoir Sketches
A work in progress… I hung our graduate school degrees from Columbia over our marital bed. My husband’s on the left where he slept, and mine on the right. Mine was actually delayed in its receipt as I took an incomplete in the pottery course I should have...
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