Suprise Me

The Parking Lot Seniority List For many years until I retired I worked as the librarian at Jane Addams,   a small,  inner-city vocational high school in the infamous south Bronx.   True,  the neighborhood was sketchy,   and the local bank where many of us cashed our monthly paychecks was robbed a couple of… Read More

Where to begin? MyRetrospect.com has been a huge part of my life since the autumn of 2015. Patti and John Zussman, dear friends since high school, began discussing their idea with me for a baby-boomer community of writers who would share their memories and thoughts  by writing stories to prompts provided by the Zussmans. They… Read More

...as the ring transitioned from the world of the real and visible to the underwater world of Neptune and Ariel and Moby Dick... Read More

"I had a stormy rant ready, but...." Read More

I guess a show that has been on the air for 49 years has to evolve, and each generation has its own concept of what is funny. Read More

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

Dashed hopes for a sexual threesome one night in 1970, and what rats we men are. Read More

Of all of the cheap places we stayed when my husband and I took an eight-week trip to Europe and Israel, Victor Mattace’s pensione was the worst. Read More

I keep stumbling over The edge of aging This wrinkled hand This creaking hinge This blank spot In the file cabinet That held the treasures And torments of a life A story That is still unfolding With a few missing Pieces   But relentless ticking And the sounding chimes Of a heedless clock A blur… Read More

When I was five years old, my grandmother got me a Saturday job with her neighbor, Mrs. Madison. My job was to help collect eggs and feed the chickens. I scattered grain and filled the water cans. I didn’t collect eggs from any hens that pecked at my hands. I did carry the basket, but only… Read More