Suprise Me

I stopped using my diaphragm. Not surprisingly, I got pregnant. Read More

It is his scent that comes back to me most strongly: a mixture of leather, Barbasol shaving cream, and cigars. Read More

Dreams may not be real, but sometimes they can help get us through heartache. And sometimes they can even come true. Read More

… their route started from Boston to Nova Scotia to see the total eclipse of the sun Read More

Bonfire My father Arthur was born in 1912 in the Catskill town of Liberty NY some years after his parents,  my grandmother Esther and my grandfather Sam,  had emigrated to the States from Ukraine.  (See The Wheat Field)  At first they had settled among other Eastern European Jews in New York’s lower eastside where Sam worked… Read More

This is Ophelia’s first song. It’s not the mad one where she hands out flowers and says that all will be well. I knew that nothing would be well. Read More

My house is across the street from a park with several baseball diamonds, and around the corner from a school whose baseball field and snack shack are the headquarters for the local Little League. Every year on opening day there is a parade that goes past my house, with pickup trucks full of screaming little… Read More

My mother sometimes asked when she started looking old. I notice I look a lot more like her every day. Read More

The Great Hampton Babysitter Heist  When our son Noah was very young we spent several summers in the Hamptons in a rented house a short drive from both the beach and the town. One summer my husband Danny invited his business colleague Stan to join us for the weekend with his wife Lynn and their… Read More

And yet, somehow, I have experienced cotton candy, apple fritters, kettle corn, corn dogs, Indian tacos and bannock, and have roamed through outdoor venues with crowds of young people milling around midways, carnies, pavilions with exotic chickens, beer fests, dog shows, food trucks, music stages, lumberjack contests, and barrel races.  Not to mention street fairs and parades of all stripes. I just can’t tell you where and when. Read More