Suprise Me

Still, I wonder if I had a bit more solitude, would I be more productive? Read More

The jury system is a good one, but not infallible. Variables other than facts in the case can sway jurors. Read More

Ah, Hollywood! Read More

What happened to Melania’s anti-bullying campaign? Perhaps her husband bullied her into shelving it. He seems to have the market cornered as the biggest bully in the country right now. He certainly has the loudest megaphone. A friend told me that he read a story written by an elementary school classmate of the Orange One’s.… Read More

Our differences are what we share -- the fact that we are different, all of us from one another, is how we are the same. 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

I felt uncomfortable packing the book and uncomfortable leaving it behind. Read More

My Beloved Basement I’ve written before about 2026 McGraw Avenue,  the house in the Bronx where I grew up,  and  in my mind’s eye I can still see every room, nook and cranny.   (See Parkchester, Celebrate Me Home,The Puppy in the Waiting Room,  and  Mr Bucco and the Ginger Cat) And now I even… Read More

Sometimes we don't realize the influence a parent has had in our life until later in that life. Read More

Billy Joel’s recording of  “Just the Way You Are” was released (or “dropped” as we say now) in September of 1977. By early 1978, the song was still getting a lot of airplay on the radio. During the nearly four months my daughter was in the Intensive Care Nursery at UCSF, my husband and I … Read More