Archives in Category: Nostalgia

Ten minutes to write. Less time to read.

Winnie the Pooh

Posted on October 19, 2004

So . . . this ten minutes is about whimsy as the presidential candidates swagger and bluff.

For me, Alan Alexander Milne exemplifies whimsy in the shape of Winnie the Pooh. I don’t mean the Disney travesty; rather I

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Nothing Is Simple

Posted on October 18, 2004

Things get complicated really fast in today’s world. I work part-time for my son and his partner who own a business in New York City. They are considering changing banks because they think they might get better service from a

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Carmichael’s

Posted on October 11, 2004

I looked forward hungrily to meeting Lew and Enid, our friends from New York City, at Carmichael’s Steakhouse in Chicago last night. We hadn’t seen each other since May; and Carmichael’s seemed like the perfect place to catch up on

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Good Morning

Posted on October 9, 2004

Earl brings me coffee in bed every morning, because I hold the world’s record for taking the longest time to wake up. It doesn’t matter what time I went to bed the night before or what time it is in

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Oldest Book

Posted on September 20, 2004

I own five or six hundred books at most, since I’m not as interested in owning as reading them. I’m prone to recycling with friends, giving to the Salvation Army, and generally keeping books I might have to move to

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Letters

Posted on September 7, 2004

The pen and paper approach to writing letters is on the endangered species list of social graces, because snail mail simply hasn’t evolved as much as its cousin, the email.

However, there is a certain pleasure in opening one’s physical mailbox

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First Grade

Posted on August 20, 2004

At the beginning of August, my Ten Minutes A Day was on my first grade teacher, Mrs. Carey. Actually, it was how I couldn’t remember anything about her, except her name. So I asked for readers’ help in fleshing out

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Brittany

Posted on August 17, 2004

For a long time now I’ve felt that Brittany Spears needs to climb off the stage, cover her navel, and go home. Instead I’m regaled via AOL and magazine racks at the grocery check-out about how she’s learning to be

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Color vs. Black

Posted on August 7, 2004

I am thrilled that women have discovered color for their wardrobes this summer, because I am a color person. For example, the walls in every room in my house are a different color, from eggplant purple to sea green to

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Kim

Posted on August 6, 2004

Halfway through sixth grade, I moved with my Mother from Syracuse, NY, to St. Louis, MO; and, in the process, I changed my name.

Originally I was christened Elizabeth Anne, but everyone called me by my middle name in the early

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