To have in my possession…

In fourth grade, my music teacher recommended…

For almost twenty years…

When I was growing up in the 1950s and ‘60s, my family went to my grandparents’ summer place…

My favorite White Sox lefty…

I have no memories of my Grandpa Roberts…

I wind and set the brass ship’s clock.

When I was 6 years old in 1956…

When I was growing up in Glencoe, a bedroom suburb north of Chicago, I didn’t quite fit in….

I’ve been vindicated by a movie!

When I was 10 in 1956…

I’d given her my solemn word.

A little girl walked up to me with her arm extended…

My mother had three mink coats…

My grandmother wore a fur coat…

I know of three origin stories for the smiley face.

While cleaning out the basement recently, my wife Kris and I came across a very old and storied knife.

In my younger days, when restaurants…