Suprise Me

I have no memory of learning to ride an actual bike. Read More

Danny‘s beloved 2004 T-bird,  slightly scratched  Fender Bender When my husband Danny turned 60 he bought himself a birthday present – a light green Ford Thunderbird convertible.  Needless to say he loved that car,  and although I’d always thought of cars as basic transportation,  I must confess I loved that T-bird too! At first Danny… Read More

The wheel felt woozy in my hands and the truck began to float. Read More

Chagall’s Cows When our son was a toddler many friends began fleeing Manhattan.  They couldn’t imagine raising a child amid all the dirt and crime. “But think of the culture!”,    I’d say. Noah at 5,  wide-eyed at the Met’s Arm & Armor exhibit.   And making Purim masks at the Jewish Museum,  and model… Read More

Mother died three days before her 97th birthday. I described my relationship with her, and her last six days of life in much detail in What I Didn’t Tell You Then. I knew the people at the funeral home in Detroit quite well. The owner, Herb Kaufman, lived around the corner from us in Huntington Woods.… Read More

Dan seemed to implicitly understand the concept of ethos, which I learned about two to three decades later. It comes from Aristotle, and it means establishing credibility, giving the audience a reason why they should listen to what you have to say. Read More

No matter how many times I’ve watched it, I am still left wondering who did what when in Rashomon. Read More

Captain Born in a small town in New York’s Catskill Mountains,  my father remembered dancing around a bonfire as a six-year-old to celebrate the 1918 armistice. Two decades later when the US entered WWII he enlisted in the Army as a newly minted physician.   Assigned to the Charleston,  SC  Port of Embarkation,  he was… Read More

All seemed very normal in this town, as long as you stayed in your lane. Read More

I am drowning in a digital sea, I am slipping beneath the sound, Here my voice goes to ones and zeros. Read More