Nantucket – I’m Home

We stepped out from the tiny prop plane and I stood for a moment on top of the stairs breathing in the salty air of Nantucket, filled with the scent of Lilies and memories of teenage debauchery. The words from Diddy’s song, “Coming Home,” swimming in my head: “Back where I belong,...

Surviving the Holidays

\ This holiday season, with two sisters, our mother, the husbands, eight children, our cousin Peter visiting from Los Angeles and two dogs, the energy should be bottled. Every year I forget what it’s like to have the kids home from school where the weather makes getting outside with teams of kids...

Taken Down by Thanksgiving

Last year  Thanksgiving dinner was at our house and I fretted over how I was going to successfully turn the incredibly enormous beast of a bird sitting headless before me into a delectable feast.  My  in-laws took over the helm and saved the day, once again, tenderly basting and rotating the turkey as if...

A Summer Without Visiting Nantucket

Today, July 18th, is the day that I have taken my family to Nantucket every year for nine years. I will miss my mother’s fabulous birthday dinner with friends and family,  evening walks with the children and the fireflies as the sun sets, sandwiches from Something Natural, bike rides to Madaket and...

Happy Birthday to my Aunt Tutti

Happy birthday Tutti! You are a remarkable women for helping my mother during her move. You were there for her every day at the crack of dawn until the last exhausting minute. Not only did you help her in a time of need but you also invited she and Marvin into your home for an extended time with no known...