Going home again

July 16, 2012
Home.For me, it's always been several places. Syracuse. Tallahassee. Los Gatos. San Jose. Mountain View. Saratoga. Tampa. Schoen Place But there's only one hometown...
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Back to the future: a photographic trip down memory lane.

May 16, 2012
Most of my most significant old photographs have disappeared. Too many moves, for one thing. But also, when M. and I divorced in 1980, I discarded all our old...
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Mother love: beyond this dimension

May 13, 2012
It knows no boundaries, earthly or otherwise. A Happy Mother's Day to mothers everywhere, including those who are no longer in this earthly dimension. Like mine....
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Happy Mother’s Day to doggie mamas

May 13, 2012
Beautiful Henry is my sister-in-love's delightful Irish terrier. There is no sweeter dog. Anywhere.  He happens to live in Rochester, NY, and we visited him last...
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Missing mom

December 22, 2011
Santa Maria Porcello CassaraAugust 27, 1925 - December 22, 1999 I know you're not really gone,but the world definitely seems smaller.I continue to live the lifeyou...
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Family drama

November 26, 2011
The holidays are half over: had enough of family drama? I have to tell the truth. The Legal Eagle and I like our holidays a deaux. I know we're not supposed to. We're...
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Calling home

August 27, 2011
My mother would have been 86 years old today. This is a piece I sold to Skirt! magazine in 2003. It's right on theme with my trip down Memory Lane. To my mother: still...
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Mother love is eternal

May 9, 2011
Mom & me, circa 1996, Pacifica, CA This is the twelfth Mother's Day since mine's been gone. And while her death left a gaping hole in my life, the passing years...
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A daisy in winter

December 22, 2010
I can't let the day pass without acknowledging my mother, who passed from this world 11 years ago today. Although I feel her with me from time to time, I miss her...
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Days in good company

May 9, 2010
I hope you spend this Mother's Day in good company.I've been lucky enough to spend a few days this week in good company. With a friend in Los Gatos. Another in Scotts...
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