Month: January 2018

The Day I Killed Satellite. Has a nice ring to it, don’t you think? I am toying with this, as the title for my newest book, a memoir. “The Day I Killed Satellite.” A Memoir by Polly Kronenberger The other

Somebody really helped me once. Actually, I am so lucky. I’ve had a lot of “once’s” where people have helped me. Probably too many to count. Here is one truth for the lot of us. We are dying. By the

I’ve always liked the word amalgamation. It was born a noun. It came out meaning, “the action, process or result of combining, or uniting.” Combining, uniting. A collaboration. A cooperation. That describes our planet. Perfectly. It is a big blue

I, for one, am glad that Christmas is over. It has become, for SO many years now, a big bunch of hype. There was a good guy born on that day. There should be a cake baked at supper time,

This flu season has been harsh. Across the entire United States. People are sick. And tired. I am on my sixth day of the flu. It has got to part ways with me soon. It’s hard to be you when

There were, at times, nine of us, clamoring around the kitchen table. We all had our appointed places, and we filled those chairs reliably. Often, there was a great deal of anticipation for the good meal to come. There was

We, humans, are creatures of habit.  One of my favorite stories is about
a woman who always cut off a piece of the roast before she put it
in the oven.  Her husband asked her why she did that. The woman said

I love a good Ghost Story. I’ve had, what I consider, a few encounters of my own over the years. We had some “strange happenings” while growing up in our home on Bruce Avenue. From time to time. But as

Smarmy is a good word, don’t you think? I am trying to think about how many smarmy people I know. Let’s see. If we are smarmy It means we are smug, or ingratiating. That we give off a sense of

There was a Christmas Truce in 1914. Most of us have heard about this. It occurred during WWI. It was an amazing thing that happened, on Christmas Eve of 1914 and the following day. Along the Western Front in Europe.