Recently my son developed a painful kidney stone for the second time in the past few years. He was hospitalized and treated and all is well now, but I was reminded of the first time it happened. My husband and I had just gotten off a flight from New York to San Francisco for a family celebration on the same day our son was flying to Turkey for a conference when my husband’s cell phone rang. It was our son. “I landed in Istanbul and I’m heading for the hotel, but I...
Archive - April 2014
Every spring as Passover approaches I found myself laughing again over something that happened many years ago. We were having 18 for Seder and after calling the butcher to order lamb for my traditional stew, I wrote out a long shopping list for everything else I needed and headed out to the supermarket. Not surprisingly, the store was busy and I was navigating my shopping cart down a crowded aisle when I suddenly realized that the shopping list I had been clutching was no longer in my...