All posts by Emily Rosen
ELECTION DAY PLUS ONE 2022
It is election day plus one. The “stew” that is politics is still bubbling – and there is no way to extricate the individual ingredients that make it tasty – but it seems clear that its essence IS tasty! All kinds of people turned out to let us know that democracy is as important to […]
PRECIOUS FRIENDSHIP: THIS IS HOW IT HAPPENED – FEBRUARY 2022
When our little family—my husband, infant son and his 3 year old brother — began to bulge out of our small apartment, we moved to a more spacious house, in the early 1960s. Billie was our new next door neighbor. She and her husband had a two year old daughter and her belly was big with […]
LOST AND FOUND: IT’S NOT THE PEARLS
It was some time around our 10th anniversary in the early 1960s. He wanted to buy something special for me, and I had a yen for pearls. We traipsed into “the city” to the jeweler’s exchange on 47th street and exited with a fine choice of long oyster-gems. He peeled off about $2000. in pocket cash, and we dropped […]
A CAT FOR MOTHER’S DAY
Icons Fetishes Symbolism and Learning to Live with it My son Chip was of the mind that a cuddly gift was Mother’s Day appropriate. Perhaps that was part of his Peter Pan affinity. Thus, my overwhelming collection of 3 feet tall fuzzy Teddy Bears, Elephants, Snoopy Dogs and more, in assorted pinks and grays and whites. […]
SHOULD I GO OR SHOULD I STAY?
This is a recent experience I had in a doctor’s office. (not for the first time) Nurse: Approaching quietly and whispering in my ear: “Mrs. Rosen, I think you made a mistake on your intake papers. You wrote, DOB as being 1927, and I think you might want to correct it.” Well, of course, I’d like to […]