Suprise Me

Jessie’s 79th Like most kids I had a yearly birthday party,   and then like many girls of my generation a Sweet Sixteen. In later years we had a wonderful celebration for my son’s 13th birthday at his bar mitzvah.   (see Ghostwriting in the Family) And later a fun party for my husband’s 60th at… Read More

(All my poetry encompasses ‘Affairs of the Heart’, This is a sad one.)   Somehow we knew  we were never right for each other And yet we allowed the pageantry to proceed, I in the bridal gown of my dreams you, in a slightly small tuxedo choking you at the throat.   I remember you… Read More

I still own a pair of black Can’t Bust ‘Em dungarees that I wore while working as a timber cutter at the Buckshot mine in Eldora, Colorado. I don’t wear them anymore — I’m a little beyond a 1970 waistline — but the rugged old pants still sport the brass buttons sewn onto the beltline… Read More

This is a story about a time that I tried to forgive and did such a bad job of it that I ruined the friendship entirely. Read More

Mr. Pebbles  was a Soviet Space Cat who became the first animal in space, and the first animal to orbit the Earth. Mr. Pebbles, a stray cat from the streets of Moscow, was selected to be the occupant of the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 that was launched into outer space on November 3, 1957. Little was known about… Read More

Scammed! I thought I was pretty smart but the scammers out there are even smarter! A few years ago I got a call telling me my Verizon bill was overdue and my cell phone service would soon be discontinued. I thought I’d paid that bill and could easily have checked,  or  I could have hung up… Read More

This song demanded that I write about it Read More

When we got to reciting the ten plagues during our Zoom seder, I know all of us were thinking about an eleventh one that kept us apart this year. Read More

Get paid to blow things up?? He was in! Read More

Noah R,  Noah G,  and Noah L Three Noahs As you may know it’s traditional in Jewish families to give children the names or initials of loved-ones who have died.   And so when we were expectant parents we planned to name the baby after my late father-in-law whose name was Naftali. My woman’s intuition… Read More