Apfelstrudel – German apple strudel – a favorite dessert of my maternal grandmother.
It was Thanksgiving 1946. Gathered around the table were my parents, my brother and me along with my maternal grandparents,...
In my latest column that ran in the Sept. 28 edition of the St. Louis Call, I explained why I thought September was the cruelest month.
My younger brother contracted polio in September 1964. He was...
In 1922 T. S. Eliot’s famous work “The Waste Land” was first published. This poem was written after the First World War when Europe was a crumbling mess. He opens the poem by stating that the cruelest...
The St. Louis County Library and the St. Louis Department of Public Health announced last week that Narcan kits are available at five county library branches, and will expand to all 20 branches by the...
The Crestwood Crossing development is now the location of a new Mercy-GoHealth Urgent Care.
The new location is in the Crestwood Crossing shopping center, 9952 Watson Road, next to Dierbergs, which...
We’re all living on borrowed time
In 2019, when in my early 80s, I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic cancer has one of the worst survival rates of all cancers. Statistically only 4.5%...
I am sure each reader has heard the story of Rip Van Winkle. He goes to the hills to hunt squirrels with his rifle and dog. In the hills Rip comes across a band of funny-looking men with a keg of liquor....
Two of our grandchildren recently graduated from high school. One last month and the other earlier this month. They have learned a lot and will learn more as each goes to college in the fall. But there...
Aberdeen Village resident Gene Beatty marked his 102nd trip around the sun Wednesday, March 1, with a 102nd birthday celebration at Aberdeen Village in Kirkwood. Beatty, who is an independent living...
My mother was a pioneer.
Not what you usually think of a woman leaving the comforts of a home on the eastern seaboard and traveling westward in a covered wagon. No, my mother set sail from the western...
