Suprise Me

Best of all is dark chocolate, the darker the better. When I am in need of comfort, that's where I go. Read More

in spite of the King's precautions, the princess, who is described as a free spirit, stumbles into...someone working at a spindle. The spindle draws a few drops of her blood... Read More

I was not a “cool” kid in high school, and, though I had run through a fair number of dates, I never had a long-term boyfriend. As prom time approached my senior year, I desperately wanted to attend that rite of passage, but things were not looking good. My two best friends had been in… Read More

Somehow, we turned into a street and found ourselves in Old Dacca, where we clearly didn’t belong.  Read More

At Burger King, we ate with our hands! Read More

My Cousin Rick We were shocked some months ago to learn of the sudden death of my cousin Rick at age 66.  The family gathered in Rochester where Rick had lived, and several of us spoke at his moving memorial service. Since childhood my redheaded cousin had suffered a debilitating mental illness.  His devoted parents… Read More

Jamaica Plain housing project — age 3, going on 4 Read More

In 1979, six-year-old Etan Patz disappeared on his way to his school bus stop in Lower Manhattan. Read More

I cringe when I hear jokes putting down used car sales people. My father began with a used car lot, built it into a Chrysler Dealership. When that ended, sold Buicks for a time, then became the first Director of the Endowment Fund for The Detroit Jewish Welfare Federation, starting in 1970. He was known… Read More

How can a library chart your career path as early as childhood? No one was more surprised than me. Read More