Suprise Me

Do You Miss New York ? Dave Frishberg wrote it and no one sings it better than Rosie! See Clooney! – Dana Susan Lehrman  Read More

It seemed like so much fun to me. The real story was much more sobering but also inspiring ... Read More

My mom owned her own business. She had a beauty shop in the front of our house, complete with the stations with the big mirrors and a row of driers and a little rolling table with the stuff for doing manicures. I was always surprised when friends thought I was so lucky regarding that. I… Read More

But I do think some of the changes necessitated by the pandemic will be positive ones if we choose to learn from them. Read More

Now that my parents are gone, I realize there were so many questions I wish I had asked them. All I have now are their letters to fill in the gaps in my knowledge of the years between when they met and their marriage. Read More

We’ve all known since we were little kids that there is magic in storytelling—in finding out what happens next. Read More

In my mind I played so well. Read More

My sometimes vigilant parents rushed to the television button a couple of beats too late to protect me from this grim portal on life and death.  Read More

Washed Apple My father was a wonderful guy and I’ve shared many loving memories of him.  (See My Father, the Outsider Artist,  My Dad and the Word Processor, Saying Farewell to a Special Guy,  and Six Pack) But he did have some strange food-related tastes and habits.   Apples were his favorite fruit,  and when… Read More

I had the good fortune (Koun) to travel to Japan on business. I was familiar with Lederer/ Burdick’s The Ugly American and so I was on my best behavior. I was remember being impressed with the sale of beer through vending machines on their city streets. Back then I was a smoker and after almost… Read More