Suprise Me

Rolling Stoned at the Garden I’ve told you about my dalliance in a New York coffee shop with Paul McCartney (See My Favorite Beatle),  so now let me tell you about my night at the Garden with the Rolling Stones. Our friends Mary and Frank own a deli and bakery on Mott Street that supplies… Read More

In July of 2018, Arthur Andrew Gelien died. I knew him as Tab Hunter and had his picture pasted in a scrapbook devoted to my celebrity crushes. I was my granddaughter’s age when I swooned to his song Young Love and watched him in the movie Damn Yankees. He was cute and, like several of… Read More

My maternal grandparents came to this country from Bialystock, Russia in 1906 to escape the pogroms. They raised four children, my grandfather ran a successful jewelry business in Toledo, OH, were free to worship as they pleased and found prosperity in the heartland of America. One could say they lived the American Dream. Two of… Read More

She had been taken to the ER after attempting suicide, and would be in there for some days. Would we take care of her dog? Read More

How a deus ex machina saved me from driver ed. Read More

I am not a big fan of Valentine’s Day, a holiday that creates such high expectations that one is almost bound to be disappointed. Read More

Dr. Byrne's office was in his home in East Orange, New Jersey ... What first struck me whenever I entered was olfactory ... Read More

From my files: A Japanese ritual: emotion, laughter, love and union. Read More

Frances Henne I’ve been inspired by many fine teachers over the years but the one who influenced me most was Frances Henne, my professor at Columbia’s graduate library school. Not a household name and surely not recognizable outside her field,   Dr Henne was a mover and a shaker in the children’s and young adult… Read More

As long as I know where the lake is, I know I am headed east. Read More