Darryle Pollack | I never signed up for this...
confessions of a cluttered mind
His birthday is this week; and we were planning an event to celebrate him. Our daughter Alli said she imagined it as a surprise party —and wanted to make sure that he would love everything about it. A couple months have gone by; memories of his pain and suffering have faded. Still it can be [...]
I had a friend from high school visiting here a couple weeks ago. What I remember most about that visit centers on our memories. Not memories from times in high school—I mean our memories. We’ve lost them. We spent half of our time together trying to remember if we had our cellphones with us—and [...]
Sometimes friendship is one of those things we under-appreciate or even overlook. For much of my life, I didn’t value the friends I had made. And then I got a wakeup call. It came when I found myself in a new community where I hadn’t made friends yet and was far away from those I had. [...]
She studied the stars—and no star shines brighter than she did. When Susan Niebur died today, the blogosphere lit up with memories, tributes, and love. After my last few weeks of sadness, I planned to be writing about something cheerier–but right now I can’t write or think about anything else. Susan was an astrophysicist, one [...]
The name sounds like a Beach Boys song or a mythical concept—-and in a sense that’s what it is: a mythical place within a mythical place. Palm trees. Balmy tropical weather. Adjacent to a golf course. Just a few blocks from the beach and the Atlantic Ocean. Glitzy glamourous resorts like the Fontainebleau [...]
How do you know when you first meet someone that they will become your friend for life? I certainly had no idea when I first met Carol Hatton. Initially we connected because she reached out her hand. Who knew it would be our breasts that would connect us for life. What drew Carol to [...]
As V and I walk out of the theater after the movie, my phone rings. It’s Judy; I tell her where we are. ”What a coincidence! I just saw it, too. Of course Dick would have wanted to rush out and see it Friday on opening day—but I decided today was better—it was the [...]
I couldn’t decide whether to lead with song lyrics or Abbott and Costello. A recent phone conversation felt like I was in the middle of their most famous routine: Are you there? I’m here. But I thought you’re not home. Right. I’m not there. So why haven’t you been online then? Because I’ve been here. [...]
Lately there’s just too much heavy stuff around—in books, movies, in life and on my blog. I decided I need to lighten up. The answer blew in with Hurricane Irene– which flooded my friend Amy’s home on Long Island and inspired her to clear out her office, listing on her blog a few amazing treasures [...]
All our lives have forks in the road. Sometimes we don’t even realize we’re there; and how much depends on twists of fate; how one person or one random step can spin your life in a completely different direction. I was a couple years out of college; after working at two dead-end jobs in Boston [...]
After becoming a writer, artist, TV journalist, mother and breast cancer survivor----I realize nothing turns out the way we expect. So I blog about handling the big and little things — with humor, humanity, and hope.
The knobs say it all: Susan is the super-hero inside every woman. Made of ceramic knobs, hand–painted tiles, on a painted background. Measures 12″ X 12″ .
It's the combination, of course. And the locks will open for the right person---(to be revealed on the back when you take her home.) Made of combination locks and hand-painted tiles on a painted background. Measures 14" by 14".
Pun intended. A nice pair---of pears...made of miniature porcelain boxes, surrounded by painted tiles and broken china on a painted background. Measures 11" square.
Hope: not only on her driver’s license, but in her heart. Ceramic ribbon, hand-painted tiles on a painted background, measures 9 inches square.
Word surrounded by hand-painted tiles in bright and beautiful (gold and marine blue) colors, with border of tiny gold tiles. Measures 11" square.
True beauty lies in the imperfections. Irregular mirror surrounded by hand-painted tiles with a border of ceramic tiles. Measures 11" square.
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