Connections

The writer’s father as a young math teacher, wearing a prop students made for his yearbook photo.

Pulling into the cemetery for my dad’s funeral, I remembered one of his classic dad jokes

Now that he’s gone, I find myself laughing at those horrible old punchlines.

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Technology helped me be with my mother on her last day
The pain of my mother's death is still raw. Now I'm feeling disconnected all over again.

A barking dog, a whining child. These are interruptions I welcome.

We had Buffy over 17 years. A long life for a dog, a flash of time mirroring how long I'll have my daughters at home before they move out.

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My family can’t say a four-letter word starting with ‘L.’ I’m OK with that.

I used to chalk it up to my family being weird.

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I first scaled Mount Washington in 1954 at age 4. I kept going back.
New Hampshire has other 4,000-footers, but this one is the only one I’ve needed.

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A Mother’s Day ode to the mothering ways of other creatures
This Mother's Day, cozy up with a book excerpt on amazing moms of other species.

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Why children singing brings me hope
No matter when or where my husband and I perform our children’s concerts, the kids always buoy us.

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I found a stranger’s journal. Its contents changed me.
“This looks important,” I said to my husband. How could we track down the journal’s owner?

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