I’ve been hearing and seeing my name on every type of media for days. Here’s an excerpt from my upcoming memoir: Becoming Grandma. Becoming Ida…………………. I’ve had a rocky relationship thru the years with my birth name, hating it, loving it, wanting to change it somehow, spell it different. It’s such a simple name. I’m anything but simple. I was named after both Grandmothers. Ida, was…
Category: <span>Creative Non-Fiction</span>
I was running late to class and hobbling still on my sore ankle. I’ll remember Mars turning retrograde at 4 degrees Aquarius (ruling zodiac sign of ankles) for a long time! As soon as I got to the top stair and turned the corner to the studio I saw it, a large white shopping bag with a big pink post-it to Ida…and a heart drawn with red markers. It was…
