Suprise Me

There is nothing I love more than reading to young children. I felt like we had fallen into a treasure trove of great entertainment. Read More

I refused to watch the previous inauguration, More accurately called the abomination, But teary-eyed in hopeful celebration, I watched this one with at least half the nation.   Don’t get me wrong, I am all for Joe, But if you ask almost anyone, the women stole the show. Not just the performances of Lady Gaga… Read More

West Side Story One wintry afternoon feeling chilled I stopped at an upper-westside cafe.  I asked for a cup of tea and drinking it I overheard an attractive older woman at the next table tell the waiter someone was meeting her. She was looking toward the door when a handsome gray-haired man entered,  glanced around… Read More

Long before the Covid vaccine, there were two other deadly diseases in our lifetime for which vaccines were a miracle cure. Read More

Nostalgia for letter writing in the old fashioned way. Read More

Life is weird right now, but not terrible. I'm sad about Molly's graduation being cancelled, and not singing with my choir. Read More

Who are you? Is the you you think you know authentic? Do you examine who you are, the portrait you portray, the person we’ve all come to know and believe it’s you?   Can you fly yet?   Does your consciousness expand on every level? Can you slither through solid walls manipulating your molecules? Can… Read More

Revising the editor Limits, rules, restrictions, guidelines, walls, trigger my auto-response of arising fierce Kali-spirit that demands the shaking off of the yoke burdening my shoulders, spitting out the bit between my teeth, severing the ball and chain cutting into my ankle, and pulling the barbed wire from around my throat, to run wildly into… Read More

The one letter I get every year, without fail, is from my longtime friend Jan. Read More

She was also raised during the depression and hated waste, particularly food waste. Read More