Suprise Me

I needed a present. I wanted it to be special. I was as poor as the usual working-class undergraduate. Read More

Half of what’s in our fridge today, I hadn’t even heard of in 1965! Read More

In no particular order: Schitt’s Creek (laugh riot) Sanditon (disappointing) The Life Ahead Defending Jacob (shot locally around Boston) The Morning Show Never Have I Ever (hats off to Suzy’s son) Hamilton (better than live) The Queen’s Gambit (totally engaging, a true binge) The Crown (4th season, bulimia reigns supreme) Broadchurch (Olivia Coleman, before she’s… Read More

Amazingly, An Affair to Remember, the movie women of my generation shed pools of tears over, just turned sixty-four. Read More

Imagine my shock as a kid when I saw my parents throw a set of luggage into the rising waters flooding our basement. Read More

The last time I saw Kelly, he’d been dead for over a year. In yet another dream, he was sitting next to me on a bus.  “You have to let me go,” he said. When I met him, in 1966, Kelly was a junior in high school. He was outrageous, audacious, charismatic, and sexy as… Read More

I love Thanksgiving and taking time to feel grateful for the blessings in my life. Read More

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I interviewed for a year, but it was a start-up and they weren’t ready to hire salespeople. I was looking to leave the software company I worked for and come to this one, as the product was a good fit with what I already knew. In fact, it could serve as a friendlier front-end to… Read More

I have no memory of what we spoke about but cannot forget the image of this wonderful woman, now frail and with hands gnarled and arthritic, and her family's fortitude and selflessness. Read More