Suprise Me

“It may not come when you want it / But it gets you there right on time.” Read More

My Favorite Things I confess I’m not very sentimental.  (See With This Ring and Baby Shoes) But there are some things I own that are older than I am and that I treasure. One is certainly the brass dinner bell my grandmother rang to call the guests to meals at her small Catskill hotel.  (See My Heart Remembers… Read More

Who are you? Is the you you think you know authentic? Do you examine who you are, the portrait you portray, the person we’ve all come to know and believe it’s you?   Can you fly yet?   Does your consciousness expand on every level? Can you slither through solid walls manipulating your molecules? Can… Read More

A saint's day isn't an appropriate holiday for nice Jewish girls, mom said. Read More

I discovered that those key staff members I had interviewed had withheld documents and flat-out lied to me, to my face. People I knew and trusted. Read More

I couldn’t wait to move out of my parents’ house after high school. I had decided to take what is now referred to as a “gap year,” and got no end of flak from my parents about it. I went searching for a job so I could make the first and last months’ rent for… Read More

Never Forget Some of the things I witnessed in New York 20 years ago during that awful September week are seared in my memory and I’ll never forget. (See  9/11) The disbelief and horror as we watched TV news clips of a plane hitting the south tower of the World Trade Center,  then the tower… Read More

Dangerous! I read banned books – to protest their banning of course,  but also because they’re invariably such good reads! As you may know,  countless modern classics have been banned or challenged at one time or another,  among them The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,  As I Lay Dying,  Beloved,  The Catcher in the Rye,  The Color… Read More

I still have a pang in my gut crossing any border, even when it should be benign.  Anything could happen in that liminal area. Read More

Let me pose a question: for a movie to qualify as “re”watchable does it first have to be watchable?  What about Stupid Movies, the kind that seem to exist solely to celebrate their own inanity? Read More