Suprise Me

When I was twelve or thirteen, my family moved to New Jersey, and I became friends with a group of little girls who were all good at, and experienced at, babysitting. I wanted to earn money, and I wanted to be good at the job too, but I wasn’t. I didn’t have any younger siblings… Read More

Marching with thousands of other people, chanting "This is what democracy looks like!" at the top of our lungs, felt great! Read More

...we raced out of the room so as not to be the last one left.... Read More

She lived her life in the public eye. And oh, did she look good doing it. Read More

He [Wiilliams] was a tall, striking man, and he had a distinctive trait when he sang: he didn't make gestures of any kind. Rather, he stood completely still, with his arms at his sides, and let his voice carry the message, and what a voice it was, strong and flexible, and he could do anything with it, even sing a few lines of Everyday in a near yodel. Read More

I was first introduced to dating dos and don'ts when I was eight years old and my two older sisters started dating. Read More

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

On Mr. Toad’s Ride, I was killed by a freight train. But Small World put me back together. Read More

My maternal grandparents came to this country from Bialystock, Russia in 1906 to escape the pogroms. They raised four children, my grandfather ran a successful jewelry business in Toledo, OH, were free to worship as they pleased and found prosperity in the heartland of America. One could say they lived the American Dream. Two of… Read More

And yet.... Read More