Suprise Me

The crown jewels of his magazine collection are the first eight issues of Verve. He wouldn't let me touch them, but would instead slowly turn the pages for me. Read More

Still, on a quiet Sunday there is nothing more relaxing than working my way through that pile of newspapers. Read More

Once an art teacher had given our class a homework assignment to collect photos for a collage, including a baby picture. When I’d asked my mom for one, she’d told me my baby pictures had been lost in a flood; yet, here they are. Read More

I was one of five children growing up. Larry was about four years older than I was, Ricky four years younger, and Keith and Kevin six years younger. So in our family hierarchy, Ricky and I shared billing as middle children. Read More

I decided this time to look at the flip side of the coin and write about my own experience as an aunt. Read More

A switch clicked in my brain. I have no idea why. I looked at Gina and said “I need to do that.” Read More

The Plug-In Drug Most of my friends have been TV bingeing for years,  and during the pandemic lockdown it certainly was the activity of choice. But I’ve never been much of a TV watcher,  and I couldn’t agree more with Marie Winn when in the 1970s she wrote about the problems inherent in watching  too much… Read More

I recently heard Nicco Mele, head of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard, speak. He doesn’t use the term “Fake News” to describe the hi-jacking of truth by our president, Russian hackers, trolls and bots who spread lies or disinformation via Facebook and Twitter, or the abundance of verifiably false… Read More

The day of rededication ... The day of dignity restored ... Read More

While at first I didn't relish the extra burden, the experience turned out to be a gift. Read More