by Sandy Lingo | Sep 30, 2015 |
The Secret Wedding Thursday, September 24, 2015 * Twin Towers Senior Community Chapel An 87-year-old man and an 86-year-old woman walk into a chapel. Between them, they have an accumulated 121 years of marriage. My father’s marriage to my mother accounts for 63 of...
by Sandy Lingo | Sep 11, 2015 |
My mom used to say, as we pulled the car into the garage on any humid August day, “Well, we air-conditioned the house. We air-conditioned the car. If only we had air-conditioned the garage.” I thought of my mother yesterday as I experienced a gap in comfort on my...
by Sandy Lingo | Aug 27, 2015 |
Perhaps you are a teacher and find yourself returning to your classroom . I hope you enjoyed your three-month vacation. Oh, not three months? Do the math, you say? Not really a vacation, but unpaid leave? Oh, whatever. I digress. Many of you are starting back to...
by Sandy Lingo | Aug 19, 2015 |
I did not love Rick the day I married him forty-three years ago. I knew this a month before the wedding when I briefly cancelled it, my mother assuring me, through gritted teeth, that the deposits and the invitations and the centerpieces she’d stayed up all night...
by Sandy Lingo | Aug 9, 2015 |
Let’s begin with a joke, shall we? Three Yogis are doing meditation in a remote cave. One day a sound is heard from outside the cave. After about six months, one of the yogis says, “Did you hear that goat?” Once again, there was silence. About a year...
