Suprise Me

The boy rocked in time to the music, rump bouncing against the back of a ruptured easy chair. He pushed a mouth harp across tiny teeth, accompanying a blues singer over the pops and scratches of a fast-revolving 78-rpm record. The harmonica’s discordant moan caught the rhythm, modality, and feel of the music and bounced… Read More

The house was a study in deferred maintenance.  Charming, with furniture, bedding, kitchen ware, and barn implements still in place, but old. He was a budding architect.  I was a friend of a friend with no repair skills to speak of, but had youthful enthusiasm, and came cheap. Read More

An adventures at the Parisian luxury hotel, the Plaza Athenée Read More

Occasionally I learn that they are dead. Read More

I come from a family that marked every special occasion with a family photo. Read More

It's delicious, no matter what you call it. Read More

I definitely have an issue with stuff magically multiplying. Read More

Not easy for a woman who hates to gamble. But nothing in life is ever a sure bet. Read More

It was introvert heaven! For a couple of months. Read More

Tradition! As a child I heard Yiddish spoken by my European-born grandparents and my first-generation American parents,  yet I never had the curiosity to learn to speak it myself. But my parents subscribed to New York’s Yiddish theatre company,  the Folksbiene,  and I’d go with them and follow the plays by reading the English supertitles.… Read More