Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, April 5, 2015 When birthdays roll in, and eye rolls to go with them, I like to remember what a friend of mine says with every yearly groan of every one of her middle-aged friends. “Well, what’s the alternative?” she says. “It’s a privilege to have another birthday.” At the moment, I …
Once upon a time, New Year’s Eve 1945
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, January 4, 2015 My mother and father met at a New Year’s Eve party in Paris 1945, at the end of World War II, at the Pierre Hotel in Paris. She, the 24-year-old eldest of three girls who had been working to help support her family for eight years already, was on …