Suprise Me

Suburbia and my mother were grooming me for my future occupation of Mom. Read More

“You understand, we can’t mention this again,” I told him. I felt like a criminal conspirator. Read More

"Bartender, drinks on the house for the entire castle!" Read More

When my life collapsed and I had nowhere to go, guess who was the first to offer to let me live in his house with his family? Read More

This is about another person’s temptation, a very little person. I was getting some provisions in between snowstorms and was riding up and down the aisles of a large grocery store in one of those electric carts. I had paused to read some labels. Around the corner in front of me come a mom and… Read More

...the house felt huge, empty and swept by onshore winds that buffeted the old frame building. Read More

This photo, snapped from atop a tripod on my old Fujica SLR, captures a pivotal time in my life. Read More

She had been taken to the ER after attempting suicide, and would be in there for some days. Would we take care of her dog? Read More

Macy’s Parkchester,   circa 1960 Selling Pop-Its at Macys Like any red-blooded American girl when I was young I did my share of shopping.   Of course it was a simpler and more personal affair then –  no Amazon Prime or online shopping.  Instead we went shopping with our mothers or our girl friends who… Read More

Charlie leered at me, “Hey doll, did you pop out tonight?” Charlie was Charles Werner Moore, a much-respected director, actor, and acting teaching at Brandeis (though I wouldn’t take a course with him until the following year) and director of the first Main Stage show my freshman year at Brandeis. He never learned young womens’… Read More