by Sandy Lingo | Sep 25, 2019 |
I have lived in downtown Cincinnati for nine years. As soon as people learn where I live, they almost always ask, “Where do you go to get groceries?” Ask my neighbors, and they will say this is almost always the first question people ask them, too. Until today. We...
by Sandy Lingo | Jul 24, 2019 |
Our Moroccan guide, Zak, confirmed the setting of the sun with an i-phone app, then took a long drink. “This is the best sip of water you will ever have,” he said, grinning. Our guide couldn’t eat or drink all day because it was Ramadan, the month when Muslims fast...
by Sandy Lingo | Jul 16, 2019 |
She was such a little thing, my granddaughter. Just a few weeks old. Back then, we were still worried that she wasn’t eating well. (We joked that this was evidence she was adopted, because we Lingos know how to eat!) Danielle had been going to the pediatrician every...
by Sandy Lingo | Jul 9, 2019 |
Graduation speeches range from the ridiculous to the sublime.There’s this advice from actress Katie Holmes: “Don’t use a fake ID to buy wine and then try to pay with a check.”And this from Cindi Lauper: “Life is going to give you a bad turn…It’s just a test. And...
by Sandy Lingo | Jun 2, 2019 |
Today was a good day to hang out in the Cincinnati Enquirer’s obits. Turns out, nearly all the local dears departed decades later in life than my age now. Also in today’s newspaper was a piece about the Japanese lady who, at 116, is believed to be the oldest woman in...
