Giving Is About The Recipient, Not The Gift.

The holidays always make me think of my grandparents. There should be no surprise there, I am sure the same is true for many. The thing that stands out for me is how selfless they were for their children and grandchildren. I realize there are many wonderful grandparents making children happy each and every day, […]

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Chats with Mimi at 3am

When I was twenty-two, I would come home at 3am or so after a night of clubbing, and as I opened the door to walk up the stairs of our three-decker home, the door of the first floor flat would open simultaneously. It was my grandmother. She looked half asleep and her questions were always […]

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Having More Is Not Necessarily Better

I grew up pretty poor in East Boston.  We lived in a three-decker, dumbbell tenement where my mother and sister had to walk through my bedroom to get to their own.  My sister’s bedroom was basically a storage room or oversized closet. There were no doors in the rooms, so there wasn’t a whole lot […]

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