Suprise Me

  Back in the annals of hair history (say, the fifties and sixties), showing dark roots was considered tacky, slovenly. It went hand-in-hand with wearing matted, fuzzy slippers to the grocery store, a cigarette bobbing between lips smeared a garish orangey-pink. Then, that same look became an actual, sought-after hair style, sexy and young – the reverse ombré (well, minus the slippers and bobbing cig). Now, with the closure of hair salons due to the need for social distancing, a new take on the reverse ombré is having its day. Rather than dark roots on light, it’s light roots topping any shade under the sun.  Read More

"The king is pregnant." C'mon, what's not to love about that sentence? Read More

I walk out in a daze, music ringing in my ears, the girls in their party dresses still twirling across my eyes. Read More

I confess:  I am not much into mending fences--either making them or breaking them or fixing them. 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

Seeing the documentary movie version the summer of 1970 shaped my Woodstock experience. Read More

I joined the Newton Community Chorus is September, 2003. NCC is run as a non-profit, and we incur a lot of expenses. We pay dues, which covers the cost of our own music (surprisingly expensive, for those who have never purchased published scores of masterworks before). We pay our conductor and accompanist a fair wage… Read More

A comforter Of mottled gray-black clouds To hide beneath. Read More

Growing up, the only people of color I knew were our cleaning woman, Pam, and a series of successors whose names I can’t recall. Read More

What I do remember from my early teen years is being the Den Mother for my youngest brother’s Cub Scout pack. Read More