… grouped all my Nips candies by color and ate them in order of perceived sweetness of colors: green, yellow, orange, red, then brown. … spent so much time in the library that I got nicknamed “mother brain” by my teacher and classmates. I only read pocketbooks, though. Hardly mother brain material! … was a […]

We had cassette tapes instead of CD’s or Itunes. When I wanted my own copy of a song but didn’t have enough money to buy the album, I would wait for it to play on the radio and record the song playing on a blank tape. I also did this with songs on my favorite […]

“Don’t buy a Samsung phone,” my friend cautioned us over lunch one day. “My husband dropped his, and its screen got shattered.” “Did he drop it from a high place?” I wondered. “No, he was just standing and it slipped from his grasp.” “Eeps! A Samsung is definitely not for me, then!” I gasped. “I’m […]

In Robert Fulghum’s book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, a book of essays about life, there is a chapter titled “Gummy Lump” which is what the author calls a shoebox where he keeps all the handmade notes and cards that his children had given him over the years. It’s a […]

It’s my younger brother Ivan’s birthday today, so I would like to share a childhood moment that I had with him. I can’t remember what age we were then, but one day, our dad (it was probably him, since Mom takes bad photos; she always ended up cutting off people’s heads in the picture) said, […]