Suprise Me

My experience in returning to Lake Placid that late afternoon encapsulated the rightness of my choice. Read More

I’m not really thirsty til I realize To my surprise and horror That I’ve left the house without My HydroFlask of water Cool clear water (water, water)   I try not to panic but I find it hard to swallow Will tomorrow ever come I mean what I am to do without water Cool clear water… Read More

How multi-generational Worths lost their Spelling Bees! 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

Fear of the Other I’m a white woman who for years worked in a public high school in New York’s inner city –  in fact in the infamous south Bronx of Fort Apache fame. I usually carpooled to work with fellow teachers  but at times took the subway from my upper east-side Manhattan neighborhood .  As… Read More

I eat my peas with honey, I've done it all my life. It makes the peas taste funny, But it keeps them on my knife. --Gelett Burgess Read More

Body and Soul Our generation may indeed be the last to remember when family doctors made house calls with their little black bags and really got to know their patients.  Nowadays with HMOs and PPOs,  and pre-authorization,  and all the other health insurance red tape and rigamarole,  it may seem harder to find a doctor… Read More

My journey through high school from 1959 to 1963 was more about what I wished I could be than about actually becoming my own person. For me, that didn’t happen until I left home for college. Read More

I've always dreamed in color. Colors that I've never seen in nature appear in my dreams. Read More

on July 8th (an event that occurs every year) 99% of the world’s population (8 billion people) will see the sun’s light at the same time Today this event took place a little after 7am EST Read More