Suprise Me

Sometimes, as in the case of my high school math class, time stopped. Read More

He [Wiilliams] was a tall, striking man, and he had a distinctive trait when he sang: he didn't make gestures of any kind. Rather, he stood completely still, with his arms at his sides, and let his voice carry the message, and what a voice it was, strong and flexible, and he could do anything with it, even sing a few lines of Everyday in a near yodel. Read More

Occasionally I would open a letter from a camp friend to find it didn't have news, just a request to be part of a chain. Read More

Cantor Gladys Gladys and I both lived uptown,   she on Manhattan’s westside and I on the east.   Yet we first met not in the city,   but in Lakeridge,  the Connecticut community where we both spent country weekends.   And once we discovered we both loved Scrabble,  we’d play together as often as we… Read More

Problem number one: I had no boyfriend and, although I was 17, I had never been on a date. Read More

When I was younger I was a wish factory.  One thing I wished for, this time of year was that I could decorate a Christmas tree.  My mom said “You are Jewish and Jewish people do not decorate Christmas Trees.”  Several years later one of my best friends invited me to a party to decorate… Read More

If I live to be 90 like my parents, my children are free to surprise me. Just no flamingos this time. Read More

Read More

Now when someone asks what I do, I answer for myself. I’m unretired and I’m writing and having a blast. Read More

The Sweeter the Wine Wine was not exactly an acquired taste of mine,  but rather a delayed one.   For years I was a teetotaler – not by choice mind you,   but on doctor’s orders.   I suffered from migraine headaches since I was a young girl,   and I had been told wine… Read More