Kitchen Radio Back in the 50s it seemed – much to my childish angst –  my parents were the last on our Bronx block to get a television set.   But of course we always had the radio. My dad was a self-taught classical pianist and we had what was then a state-of-the-art hifi system… Read More

Stay-at-Home Mom I was a young stay-at-home mom when we moved to Manhattan with our 9-month-old baby boy – a perfect confluence of time,  place,  and circumstance!   (See Aruba Nights,  Chagall’s Cows,  The Alphabet Wall,  and Reading with Hattie, and Baking with Julia) In those early years Noah and I spent lots of time in… Read More

Six Pack When my mom retired she and my dad moved out of the city and bought a charming little house two blocks from the beach in the Rockaways where they had both grown up and first met.  (See Still Life) But my dad was an old-fashioned GP and wasn’t ready to retire himself,  he always… Read More

Birmingham On the evening of April 4, l968 my boyfriend called to tell me he had just heard on the news that Martin Luther King, Jr had been shot.   We cried together over the phone,  and during that call we decided to marry – our small way of bringing some joy back into a… Read More

Play It Again, Sam Rewatchable?  Round up the usual suspects. Retroflash / 6 Words – Dana Susan Lehrman Read More

Precious  In 2010 the Oscar for Best Picture went to The Hurt Locker,  but in my book the award should have gone to one I was glad to watch a second time –  the nominated film Precious.   The film,  based on the young adult novel Push,  starred the amazing Gabourey Sidibe as Precious the… Read More

Only My Hairdresser Knows for Sure Oops,  now everybody knows for sure! Retroflash / 6 Words – Dana Susan Lehrman Read More

Milk and Honey Flu Season,  3:00am HE  (coughing,  wakes spouse)    “My throat’s killing me,  I think I need some warm milk and honey.”  SHE  (sleepily)   “Oh, you poor boy.  I’ll go fix it.”  She gets out of bed,  puts on her bathrobe and slippers,  and trudges off to the kitchen. Two Weeks Later,… Read More

Look What They’re Done to Your Pear, Milton Glaser! Lynn Truss who wrote Eats,  Shoots and Leaves: the Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation  is a woman after my own heart.   She wishes for a ‘grammar police force’  that would hunt down and arrest merchants with ungrammatical signs on their storefronts and others who abuse the… Read More

New Leaf Over the years we’ve thrown some big milestone parties –  for my husband Danny’s 30th birthday, our 25th anniversary,   Danny’s 60th at Yankee Stadium,  two big housewarmings,  my retirement,  my 70th,  and of course our son Noah’s bar mitzvah.  (See Ghostwriting in the Family) Then a few years ago on a glorious… Read More