Drove around the town square, past the porches hung with many-pointed stars, and into the parking lot of Moravian Hall Square. My mother was standing at her second floor window.

Her sister Jo and Jo's husband Jim were sitting on the sofa in the living room. "I'm going to read some jokes," my mother said, picking up a newsletter. "Are we old enough?" Jo asked.

In the morning my mother gave me a $10 bill and told me to drive to the bakery for sticky buns. I thought: I'll go back to eating healthy when I get home. Then I remembered that I was staying with a woman who had lived to be 90. I bought the sticky buns with pecans.

In the evening the family gathered downstairs in the 1740 Room (named for the year that Nazareth was founded). There was no Jack Daniels in the house, so my mother ordered a vodka and tonic. We toasted her longevity.

Sunday we took a drive down to Easton (celebrating Heritage Days) across the free bridge (which I helped pave one summer in college) and then past our old house in Shimer Manor. At Piazza's we bought six ears of sweet corn (from south Jersey) and a seedless watermelon. "I prefer them with seeds," I said. "Me too," said mom.

We got back in time to see the Phillies beat the Braves 14 to 1. "I wish they'd save some of these runs for future games," mom said. We drank vodka and tonics with horseradish cheese Jo and Jim had brought from State College.

60 Minutes was showing again the film of Market Street in San Francisco shot one week before the earthquake. In 1906, Morley Safer said, the life expectancy for men was 47 years, for women 50.

"Oh my," said my newly nonagenarian mom.

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