Suprise Me

Marching with thousands of other people, chanting "This is what democracy looks like!" at the top of our lungs, felt great! Read More

The One Who Got Away Like all red-bloodied,  pubescent American girls of the 50s I certainly did my share of dating. In junior high school we started to pair off and with little information and probably more mis-information about the birds and the bees,  we experimented.   (My cowardly parents,  rather than having that embarrassing… Read More

In this case, there are no ‘impartial’ jurors Saving our democracy is what’s important ‘No one’s above the law Read More

David took a job with Google DeepMind and moved to London in January, 2015. Google put him up in a two bedroom apartment for two months while he looked for a place of his own. Not wanting to let the second bedroom go a-begging, we went to visit the next month. It had been a… Read More

GP My father was a GP with an office on the first floor of our house,  and we lived “over the store”    (See The Puppy in the Waiting Room,  Saying Farewell to a Special Guy, and Turkey and Trimmings with Flu Shot) My dad did it all – delivered babies,  took out splinters and appendixes,  and… 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

It was a warm,  sunny Sunday morning in the city and I decided to do some neighborhood chores before the temperature rose. We fill our prescription meds at the Walgreens pharmacy chain where the pharmacists can pull an RX from any Walgreens branch. That’s come in handy when we’ve been away and have forgotten to… Read More

My father instilled an appreciation for art in me, filtered through his lens of what constituted good art. Read More

As a recidivist perpetrator of attempted humor, I know full well that “LOL”* is no substitute for a belly laugh. Read More

That is occasionally TMI for them. Read More