Suprise Me

I suppose you could say any number of those events was a type of death ... but the death of Great-Grandpa was the first time being aware that a human being who had been in my life would no longer be there. Read More

Never get in a fight with the youngest kid in his family. It took years to make that deduction. Finally, it came to me when someone said, “My big sister hits harder than that.” I was the oldest in my family. Not only could I not take a punch, but I was afraid of hurting… Read More

"You have cataracts, and you should have surgery as soon as possible." I was stunned. Only old people have cataracts, I thought. Read More

The schtick was to make the parents guilty that their children were falling behind in school and things would get dire if they didn't get the encyclopedia. Read More

At first I did worry about what to wear (torn, skinny jeans look great on a 30-year-old but on me, not so much), and whether I knew enough about my smart phone. Read More

Don’t try to brush aside a death in the family. It won’t work. Read More

Do we still make beautiful things? Can something be both utilitarian and a masterpiece? Is it possible for functionality and aesthetic beauty to coexist in perfect harmony? While walking the streets of Barcelona I can’t help but be intrigued by the idea of why utility and artistic expression converged. A journey through the older streets… Read More

Box Score When I was a girl growing up in the Bronx dozens of daily and weekly newspapers were being published in New York City.  My parents read the Times,  the Herald Tribune,  and the New York Post which was delivered to our house every afternoon. The Post was founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton… Read More

I am not organized, and I have no particular desire to be. You can figure this out as soon as you walk into my house. Well, sometimes the downstairs looks organized, because we scoop everything up and take it upstairs if we know we are having company. This leads to some chaos in the upstairs… Read More

I was made Queen for a Day.  But that started a Family Feud and landed me in Jeopardy.  Read More