Suprise Me

My soulmate/boyfriend/future husband and father of my future children worked on me with words until I willingly released the traditions of high school to embrace the rebellion of making different choices.   Despite the Gunny-sax hippy dress that was the uniform of proms in those days, that I had shopped with mom and best friend… Read More

I have cut lots of cords in my lifetime as technology changed, but I’m still afraid to let go of that last cord that enables me to understand how to operate my television. Read More

My extreme introvert's response was to focus on solitary sports like bicycling and track, and on pastimes that none of us could actually play. Read More

A possibly life-altering relationship gone because of a single ill-chosen and misheard word. Read More

This isn’t about my fame or lack of it. This is about secondhand fame. To be precise, this is about my father’s famous friend: Carol Channing. My dad grew up in San Francisco, and as a precursor to his eventual career as a drama teacher, he got involved in theater during his high school years.… Read More

"...the chimera of Security" Read More

The minute I saw the prompt, I heard Joni Mitchel singing... Read More

Afternoon Tea at Hotel Wales When Hurricane Sandy hit in 2012 our Manhattan apartment building was severely affected,  we were evacuated and moved to a Marriott hotel three blocks away for a few days .  (See Cooking with Gas) A few years earlier we also had to vacate when during a renovation the construction dust forced… Read More

I knew what they were doing, they were helping me out, but they were doing it in a way that allowed me to feel as if I were also helping them out. Read More

Do You Miss New York ? Dave Frishberg wrote it and no one sings it better than Rosie! See Clooney! – Dana Susan Lehrman  Read More