The guy at AT&T told me that my mom hadn’t yet ordered her services to be transferred to her new apartment.  The bill is in her husband’s name.  I explained that my stepfather has Alzheimer’s.  The AT&T guy told me that I need to answer this security question: Who is my stepfather’s favorite actor? I … Read more

Help!  My mom’s movers are here, and we didn’t get everything ready.  What is ready is because of my very organized step-siblings.  I’m on hold with AT&T, because my mom isn’t sure if she already ordered the switchover to her new apartment (which, again, is happening now!).  Then I’m going to call Macy’s, to make sure … Read more

I’m visiting my mom in Chicago — here to help her move from one apartment to another at the Selfhelp Home, where she and her husband, my stepfather Frank Rosen, live. Being back in this city is putting me in mind of when I arrived here in the summer of ’79, to work a summer … Read more