Re-Emergence Day

Yeah, we also did the square salami on round Ritz crackers, and round cheese on square Premium Plus crackers. It seemed to be important that the shapes never matched. One year I cut the salami into triangles. My aunt was shocked, and refused to touch them, but others in the family just chuckled abou...

In our family we would greet each other in the morning by saying "I'm Ba--ack!" in a kind of sing song.

This was the Re-Emergence Day story I was told as a child. We even acted it out in school one year. Once Upon a Time there was a Little Phoenix It was very lonely, as it had no parents, because a Phoenix gives birth to itself It also had no friends, because it was always on fire, so no one could get...

I remember one of my Mom's snobbby friends who had pieces of shattered sundials instead of clocks, always trying to outdo everyone else.