Suprise Me

I hoped my granddaughter and her peers would embrace the importance of sisterhood before the Mean Girl games of middle school took over. Read More

A story about a boy, his grandmother, and a boat. Read More

This guy Heinlein could really tell a story. Read More

I’ve worn a lot of hats in my life. As an entrepreneur, I’ve been chief cook and bottle washer in probably a dozen small businesses from baking cheesecakes to designing greeting cards to writing books and everything entailed in getting them to market. But real hats? Maybe a handful, if that. I just don’t have… Read More

The darkness stretches away in a perfect circle. Read More

"On Purim we ate triangular pastries." Read More

As introverted and retiring as I am now, I was much more so back in 1975. Read More

It's not the act of moving that makes one memorable.. Read More

She was the fun aunt – the one who let me do everything my mother forbid. Read More

Back in the early days of the Internet, I wrote for a short-lived interactive startup in Santa Monica. I was a practicing jazz musician at the time, so of course I needed the money. Before the interactive outfit folded I happily researched and wrote a brief musical history of Mozart, a jazz jukebox, a classical… Read More