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Calling Home

Retired Columns

From “Life in the Sandwich” to “Special Needs Mama” to “Zen and the Art of Child Maintenance”—they’re all here for you to explore.

And Now The Boy Is 20

When I look back to when I first became a mother, I see myself enmeshed in a tangle of emotions. Wonder. Fear. A love so intense it left me feeling…

Calling Home | September 2016 | By Ona Gritz


Red Chestnut

“Kenna hora,” my mother used to say, a Yiddish phrase that, to the best of my understanding, asks the evil eye to look away. She’d attach it to any mention…

Calling Home | May 2016 | By Ona Gritz


Maternal Instinct

Ethan is in college two hundred miles away. We speak on the phone an average of twice a week. In the absence of my one child from my day-to-day life,…

Calling Home | March 2016 | By Ona Gritz


Full Table, Not-So-Empty Nest

As my boy grew into adolescence, I felt my old longing for a fuller table, this time on his behalf. I wanted Ethan to be at the hub of good…

Calling Home | January 2016 | By Ona Gritz


Parenting Time

Ten years ago, when I was still working as a librarian, I had a memorable lunch with a colleague. She was older than I, close to retirement age, and her…

Calling Home | November 2015 | By Ona Gritz


Connection, Not Perfection

“You know people plan these things a full year in advance,” a good friend of mine pointed out. Her calendar was filling up with work and family commitments. She found…

Calling Home | September 2015 | By Ona Gritz


Calling Home

Home. That small, one-syllable word carries a huge amount of weight. How much of what we call home has to do with location, and how much is about the people…

Calling Home | April 2015 | By Ona Gritz


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