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The Generosity of Grandparents

by Robin Minkoff, Director, Finance and Development When I was very young, my family made annual pilgrimages to Brooklyn to visit my maternal grandparents for the long Thanksgiving weekends. My sister and I would sing show tunes the whole way up I-95 from Baltimore, and on arrival, we'd race up the back steps of their duplex, past the empty glass seltzer bottles, to smell her amazing cooking and his fragrant pipe, and to give/get the hugs that we so longed for. When they relocated a few years later to an apartment complex only 1 mile from our house, the universe [...]

By |September 2nd, 2015|Categories: Ventures|1 Comment