“As long as they keep coming, we’ll keep inviting them.” It’s my immediate response every time my husband asks if we should invite our adult children to join us on a trip. When they were young, we cherished our rare solo getaways to reconnect and recharge as a couple – and thankfully we had energetic grandparents who generously stepped in to make those times possible. Today, the dynamic has shifted. Our adult children are off in the world, leading full lives, managing busy ca

“I’ll exquisite day you , buddy, if you don’t get down off that bag this minute.” You may recognize this line, if you’ve read J.D. Salinger’s short story Teddy. The line was on a list of “Effective Openers” I received in Creative Writing class my senior year of high school. This was no ordinary class - to this day it remains among the most memorable of my life. Like most great classes, it was all about the teacher. Beverly Adler was in her thirties, beautiful, sharp, warm hea

T.S. Eliot famously wrote that April is the cruelest month. But given his fondness for gin, my theory is that he was unwittingly off by...