Suprise Me

He aimed and started shooting ... I found the whole practice terrifying. Read More

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

Minyan – for Uncle Sol I don’t think of myself as an especially spiritual person, but after the death of my husband’s uncle Sol,  I had a religious experience. Sol,  who died just short of his 96th birthday,  was a surrogate father of sorts to my husband,  and grandfather to our son,  and a much… Read More

The more computer savvy I became, the less contact I had with those little humans who mattered so much to me. Read More

My parents loved most of the game and quiz shows that were popular when I was growing up. Read More

Doctors Hospital and the Very Sharp Cheese Plane Until it closed in 2004 and the building was razed to make way for a new luxury high rise,  Doctors Hospital stood on East End Avenue two blocks from our apartment. Opened in 1929 as a small, private hospital,  originally for maternity cases,  it was soon favored… Read More

This must be the way things are done here, I thought. No turning back now. So I focused on the ceiling fan as it spun in a lazy circle, thinking about how I would describe this feeling to my friends. Read More

This guy Heinlein could really tell a story. Read More

At dinner time, dads cup their hands around their mouths and call their kids home. Read More

I’ll never forget that look in her eyes as she lay on the vet’s cold metal examining table. It was hard to look back. I felt like she was asking me, “Can I trust you? Am I going to be okay?” And I knew I was betraying that trust. She was going to die. I… Read More