Suprise Me

(Since the age of 11, all I valued in life was love, all I cared about was   finding my soulmate, my own true love – everything else was secondary)   All my life I wanted to know myself. Place the answers inside a silver wand, then if black rain ran over me I could wave… Read More

For the past 30 years give or take our family has joined our larger family in an annual trek to Florida to celebrate Thanksgiving. We grew from 7 adult children and their partners to now between 24-30 plus people joining in. Each year a different configuration with a primary group has returned year after year.… Read More

Sunday, July 20, 1969. “The Eagle has landed.” Hard to believe that it has been fifty years since we heard those words! Yes, I remember watching the moon landing, but my story about it has more questions than answers. Principally, what was I doing in Cambridge that weekend? It was the summer between my freshman… Read More

The Summer of My Discontent This was to be the summer I really worked on my tennis game,  and planted my garden earlier,  learned to play Mah Jongg,   and caught up on all those unread New Yorkers. And this was to be the summer I finally mastered the  barbecue,  and took out my old… Read More

Now that decision seems pre-ordained and perfect, as life never is--but it is for me. Read More

A blind date to a boring movie is not a recipe for success Read More

Watching Lacrosse with Dick I’ve written before about my friends Celia and Dick.  (See Moving Day Blues and Carving Mr Pumpkin) Dick is no longer with us but he’s impossible to forget.  He was a wonderful guy – bright, warm, witty,  cultured,  well-read and world-travelled,  a gourmand and a bon vivant,  an historian and writer,  and founder… Read More

As much as my family loved Christmas, we loved Christmas Eve more. Read More

Memorial Day to the Fourth of July, a good length of time for a vacation Read More

On Sunday nights in Detroit, it was good Jewish deli food for our family. Darby’s was the destination, either eat-in or take-out. Built by Sam Boesky (whose brother Ivan was the disgraced financier of the insider trading scandal of the mid-1980s), it could hold 375 people and served 5,000 hungry people daily. My parents and… Read More