Suprise Me

September is National Courtesy Month, so I am making an extra effort to stay calm and be a polite driver. Just wish others would do the same. Read More

Unless my penmanship improved I could be held back and not go on to sixth grade. Read More

I interviewed for a year, but it was a start-up and they weren’t ready to hire salespeople. I was looking to leave the software company I worked for and come to this one, as the product was a good fit with what I already knew. In fact, it could serve as a friendlier front-end to… Read More

Tanesha  Raised in an upper-middle class home I’m sure as a child I had little understanding of how the other half lives.  Years later working in the inner-city I had a rude awakening. As a newly licensed high school librarian I was assigned by the New York City Board of Education to a small vocational high… Read More

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We watched the events of 9/11 with a kind of detached horror, since we didn’t personally know any of the victims. Or did we? Read More

I have just one resolution this year: REWRITE. Not write, but REWRITE. I’m resolved to hone my memoir to the point where I feel it deserves to be read. In other words, to the point where others may read it and feel better about themselves and/or the world for having read it. (Wow, right?!) To… Read More

We’ve been affected by hurricanes twice  – by Irene in 2011 and by Sandy a year later.    Sandy caused us the most disruption – our Manhattan apartment building is near the East River and the storm caused it to overrun the adjacent FDR Drive and our street,  East End Ave,  and flood our building’s… Read More

So proud you are all contributing members of society. Read More

Dorothy Hamill had the best hair in the 1976 Winter Olympic Games. Maybe of all time. It was shiny, it was silky, it fanned out during her “Hamill-Camel” signature move, it bounced back into place, all pert and sassy. Confident. Strong. And, though it was not yet a common word, that hair was just flat-out… Read More