Just a Memory: Mrs. Goldstein

1957. Mrs. Goldstein, the owner of a mom and pop grocery store on Anslie Avenue in Chicago used to call me "Dark Eyes." I was seven or eight years old and my mom would let we walk the two blocks to pick up a few things from the list she gave me. No worries then.

Just a Memory: Grandpa Max

All I remember of Grandpa Max (my father's father) is him asleep in our bedroom (there was only one bedroom for our family of four) with the shadows from the window blinds crossing his legs.

Just a Memory: Grandma Sara

In my memory, my grandmother (my dad's mom) always smelled like the fish she loved to eat each and every day: salmon, tuna, herring, lox.