Matzo Balls and Christmas Trees

The holidays bring a special ache to those who have lost a loved one in December. The winter of 1974 rendered Randi Wolf Lauterbach a twenty-two-year-old orphan and changed her world forever. Thirty-seven years later with the anniversaries of her parents'' deaths approaching Randi''s mind was immersed in thoughts of her mother-thoughts clamoring to be recorded. A first-generation Jewish-American Margaret Wolf possessed a sharp wit a penchant for music and gambling and a strong foothold in her cross-cultural community of family friends and neighbors. When she passed suddenly the woman who had seemed larger than life became but a memory cradled in the hearts of those who knew her. But oh what memories she left!Framed with humor nostalgia and warmth Matzo Balls and Christmas Trees paints a timeless portrait of familial love-a love that transcends life and death and is renewed with each passing season.