It鈥檚 hard to believe 22 years have passed since we first became grandparents. And now there are six bright stars in our family constellation. But the day our first grandchild arrived, our lives changed dramatically and permanently. It was the beginning of a journey that shaped our sense of ...
In the mid-1980s, I proudly told my wife I had fit into a pair of Levi鈥檚 that were a size too small. Proof of my never-ending youth. Without a word, she slid a copy of Newsweek across the kitchen counter. On the cover? A man in Levi鈥檚. The headline? 鈥淟evi鈥檚 Now Pear-Shaped to Fit the ...
My proper British grandmother, Dora, loved cats (as long as they lived outdoors). There was never a time when we did not have at least two or three feral cats on our back porch. They always sat on the porch steps and played with me as a kid. Kitties were my friends. Twenty years later, we ...
As a teacher, husband, and new father in the 鈥�70s, expectations of what it meant to be a man changed. I can remember telling a friend, 鈥淚 grew up idolizing John Wayne and had to become Alan Alda.鈥� For my younger readers, it meant that men raised to admire the strong, silent, macho type ...