I was deeply saddened and moved by the recent death of our gracious and dignified Queen Elizabeth II . I was surprised by my own emotion. For many of us, she is the only monarch we have ever known . She was born the same year as my own mom and my mom always reminded..
Category: Pandemic
Today was Christmas and Easter rolled into one ! Today I felt like dancing, like no one was watching ! Today, while others were disappointed about cancelled Easter plans and yet another lockdown, and while thousands of nurses and doctors were preparing to work more long days over a long weekend, I had a spring in my step..
During this time of staying home and physical distancing, I am so grateful to have been given the gift of the love of gardening from my parents and grandparents from my earliest memories ! Perhaps it is in the genes or perhaps in the heart …..but for those of us who have a passion for..
Her name was Katalin. She was my great-grandmother…the mom of my grandfather, Gabriel, who was born in a remote little village in Hungary in 1902. She was one of eleven children, in a family where only two survived….Katalin and her brother Stephen, likely because of common childhood illnesses . My great-grandmother was likely in her..