Suzanne Moshenko

“Look at my hands, I’m shaking,” I tell the gal ringing up my oven mitt (gift for Carrie ) and key ring (gift for Marcy ). “I get like this when I shop in a store with such beautiful things–all shaky and over excited,” I unabashedly confess. She just nods her understanding head. She must […]

I was looking through my seventh grade yearbook and came across this inscription from James. From the looks of it, he originally thought he was writing in Wendy’s yearbook. When he realized his mistake, he quite resourcefully crossed out her name and replaced it with mine …then he crossed out that whole “I think you […]

I had all my catalog discontinued when we moved. But, just like that dog who was lost while moving and finds his family all the way across the country a month later, so The J.Crew catalog found me. It was the first one to make it through. Just in time for “winter”–quotations for the sorry […]

Hazel George Kids The perfect afternoon

I come from a long line of quitters. Not to make excuses, I’m just giving you a preamble for the following story. It has always been my way (and the way of most of my “folk”) to: give up, take the easy way out, throw in the towel. If something breaks, like the remote control […]