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Mother Knows Best
The results from the Baby Photo Contest are in, and I guess there is no real surprise about the winner. Samantha and Brooke’s mom, Elizabeth, was the only contestant to correctly identify all 10 of the...
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Thru Ellen’s Lens: The Five Grand Children
While it may seem to readers of MillersTime that Ellen and I spend most of our time these days traveling, going to movies, reading, spending time with friends, exploring new restaurants, and attending...
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Telling Esty’s Story
In 2015 we had the good fortune to see Lin Manuel’s Hamilton on Broadway, and one of the enduring memories of that masterpiece for me is the finale song of Act 2 — Who lives, Who dies, Who tells your...
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Continuing to Remember Sam Miller
On this July 4 anniversary of my father’s death, a repost from seven years ago. from MillersTime, July, 13, 2011… Sam died, as he requested, peacefully and without pain, in his own bed, in his...
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12 Do’s & Don’ts for Grandparents
Now that we are ‘old’ hands at this grandparenting thing – nine plus years and five grandchildren – we have learned a few things that no one told us when we started doing this...
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Thru Ellen’s Lens: Wyoming
Usually we just post photos from trips abroad, but as many of you know, the US has as much outstanding scenery and wonderful sites to visit as almost any place in the world. Below are a baker’s dozen...
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Focusing on the Grand Kids
Contrary to what some of you may think, Ellen and I are not spending all of our time traveling, going to movies, reading books, seeing friends, finding wonderful restaurants, following baseball, or...
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Goodbye Facebook
I’m going on a diet. Not the kind of diet I’ve been on for the last three years, with some success, despite some ‘give backs.’ But a diet from the two to three to four hours a day I spend between...
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Know the Rules – Follow the Rules
I know we’ve all heard, read, watched all sorts of advice, much of it good, some questionable, and some simply not up-to-date or just inaccurate. Below you will find links to two videos/advice from...
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“But I Want One More Day”
Sam and Richard When both of my parents had died, my mother Esty at the age of 90 and father Sam at the age of 93 1/2, we kept some old papers of theirs we had discovered and put them in a file we...
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A Tale of Two Cities
This is a story about Beijing and Washington, the two capital cities of the two most powerful countries in the world. Actually, it’s also a tale of two countries. First, some Background: Almost 40...
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“Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?”
Jan. 13, 1918 – July 4, 2011 I didn’t get to see Hamilton last night, but I am forever grateful for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s genius production (which we fortunately saw it with him in it on Broadway when...
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“Anything Can Happen”
I just finished reading what will definitely be one of my Favorite Reads of 2021: Anything Can Happen by George & Helen Waite Papashvily (NF). I know. I know. I just posted the 2020 Favorite...
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When I Was 22…
When I was 22, I joined the Peace Corps and taught at an upcountry secondary school in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Prior to serving in the Peace Corps, I had spent a summer during college in Tanganyika...
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Sam Miller: “There Is Never Enough.”
For those MillersTime readers who have read my Letters Home, a self-published book with the letters I wrote home during my two years in the Peace Corps, a number of you have commented on the...
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A Reader’s Suggestion &“The Beauty of What Remains”
A contributor to the 2021 MillersTime Favorite Reads recently wrote me with the following thought and idea: Here’s a thought (more work for you): what about a corner on MillersTime like “staff picks”...
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“I Used to Be a Human Being”– Andrew Sullivan
I recently came across a lengthy article by Andrew Sullivan I had read more than five years ago about being “a very early adopter of what we might now call living-in-the-web.” See: I Use to Be a Human...
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Carrie Trauth Made the World a Better Place
February 7, 1945 – March 7, 2022 One of the memorable and haunting songs in Lin Manual’s Hamiliton is Who Lives Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story. For Carrie Trauth, it is no question about who will tell...
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Thru Ellen’s Lens: Montana
Ellen and I recently had the good fortune to spend 10 days in Montana, three days visiting long time friends in Bozeman, and then seven days with our elder daughter and her family in the Big Sky area...
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