Category Archives: Brooklyn is calling

Company!

Posted on August 19, 2014 by onesanevoice

Husband and I have a little condo upstate that takes about three hours to get to considering traffic, a coffee stop, bathroom break, etc.  We bought the place in 2003 when my parents and grandmother were dying all at the … Continue reading →

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Choice Sophie

Posted on July 16, 2012 by onesanevoice

Our family’s past, present and future converged on Saturday in Brooklyn.  As we walked from Aunt Sophie’s Avenue P apartment to the Chinese restaurant on Bay Parkway, I looked with delight at the company that surrounded me.  There was Daughter … Continue reading →

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In a Poe State of Mind

Posted on November 4, 2010 by onesanevoice

When I was a kid, my father used to sit on the edge of my bed at night and read to me before I went to sleep.  No Goodnight, Moon or fractured fairy tales for us; no, in our Brooklyn housing project … Continue reading →

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The Simple Rules

Posted on July 8, 2010 by onesanevoice

According to a recent Pew research poll, 53% of American adults google each other.  This is not surprising news.  The ferocity with which the average citizen privately researches those they know, want to know, or don’t want to know is … Continue reading →

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Son and Daughter: The Early Years

Posted on May 16, 2010 by onesanevoice

In spite of the tremendous verbal talents of each of my children, they were both late talkers.  Daughter barely spoke at all until she hit two years of age, and then said a complete sentence out of the blue.  After I tucked … Continue reading →

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Zip it

Posted on February 27, 2010 by onesanevoice

I read Husband a story this morning from the paper that cemented the end of another era in my memory, that of the doctor who makes house calls.  The piece was about the passing of an 84-year-old area physician who … Continue reading →

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Familiar strangers revisited

Posted on February 11, 2010 by onesanevoice

I’m sick with something miserable this week so please accept a reprint of an entry that ran in the winter of 2007.  Daughter’s pictures are new, but the entry and the memory it recalls are gently used. Today as I … Continue reading →

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Men of the World

Posted on October 13, 2009 by onesanevoice

I love it when little kids get you so good you remember it years later.  I feel very lucky to still know the young adults who were once the small children my kids played with.  Not only are they still … Continue reading →

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Proceed straight to the writer’s block then turn left

Posted on February 8, 2009 by onesanevoice

The area I live in has a large, active Writer’s Guild, and I attended a meeting the other night for the first time.  It’s hard to say what was holding me back for so many years because I consider myself … Continue reading →

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A Breath of Fresh Air

Posted on January 27, 2009 by onesanevoice

On Friday I rushed through a flurry of errands so I’d be free to leave for Brooklyn at 5:00 for a gathering at my friend betty’s.  I’ve written before about the Brooklyn Girls, a group of women from my old neighborhood … Continue reading →

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