Lori Falce

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Mar. 21—I am not old enough to retire. That doesn't mean I am unfamiliar with the Social Security Administration. My father-in-law lived with us for several years after he suffered a heart attack. My husband received disability because of a constellation of health issues. I am a woman and I got married, so I got to experience the special hell of changing my name. PennDOT decided in its infinite wisdom to put a hyphen between my maiden and married name, something I didn't ask it to do.

1 month ago | triblive.com | Lori Falce

I am not old enough to retire. That doesn’t mean I am unfamiliar with the Social Security Administration. My father-in-law lived with us for several years after he suffered a heart attack. My husband received disability because of a constellation of health issues. I am a woman and I got married, so I got to experience the special hell of changing my name. PennDOT decided in its infinite wisdom to put a hyphen between my maiden and married name, something I didn’t ask it to do.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Lori Falce

Mar. 14—My favorite part of "The Princess Bride" is when Vizzini, a sly criminal mastermind who is not that sly nor much of a mastermind, responds over and over to events with a shout of "Inconceivable!"The swordsman Inigo Montoya — brilliantly played by Mandy Patinkin — eventually looks at his boss quizzically. "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."AdvertisementThe line runs through my head frequently these days.

1 month ago | triblive.com | Lori Falce

My favorite part of “The Princess Bride” is when Vizzini, a sly criminal mastermind who is not that sly nor much of a mastermind, responds over and over to events with a shout of “Inconceivable!”The swordsman Inigo Montoya — brilliantly played by Mandy Patinkin — eventually looks at his boss quizzically. “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”The line runs through my head frequently these days.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Lori Falce

Feb. 28—My mother's grandmother Karolina was born in Austria in 1899. She came to Philadelphia in 1906 with her mother, an unmarried woman who had a romantic story about Karolina's unnamed father but who rewrote her life in America claiming to be a widow. Karolina was not wealthy. Neither was her mother. My father's great-grandfather was born in the canton of Glarus in Switzerland in 1826. Marcus Luchsinger, family legend tells us, was headed west when he arrived in New Orleans in 1845.