Rants of the Newly Old

I no longer remember what this object is called. The friend from Bulgaria who gave it to me said it was intended hold perfume, to give scent...

  (Blogger's layout features are primitive in the extreme. I was able to get two images in a row yesterday, but acci...

This oval Dutch oven (or cocotte) looks like Le Creuset, but it is literally from a Dutch company, DRU. This pot belonged to my Aunt Nita, a...

Lenin’s bust is something else I took from Grandpa Sam’s apartment after he died. I never knew he had this, so nev...

            This collage was put together by my grandpa Sam. Sam Leibowitz was my mother’s father, born in what was then Russia (and is n...

           This is a gift from Christina Kotchemidova, who I first met at the founding meeting of the Network of East-West Women in 1991. ...

              The ring sat among other rings in a cotton-lined box on a crowded counter in the gift shop. The shop was just a couple of blo...