Remembrance…

Elena Tucker
3 min readFeb 27, 2024

We Jews, have this thing about visiting cemeteries and graves. We consider it a sacred duty to do so. We put a little rock or a pebble on the grave or the headstone as a reminder that someone was there.

Whenever I go to the local Museum of Nature of Science — and I try to visit not only the local one, but also ones when we visit other cities — I often visit the gift shop where they have interesting assorted, colorful stones for sale. I get…

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Elena Tucker

Writer and storyteller, immigrant, wife, mom, knitter, collector of jokes, lover of cheap, sweet wine.