Suprise Me

After a series of hula dances and fire twirling, the emcee invited all the newlyweds up on the stage to be congratulated. Half the crowd crammed up to the front for applause and a free hula lesson. Wearing sheepish grins, we swayed out of sync until we were sufficiently embarrassed and rushed off the stage. Read More

Suddenly I sensed more freedom and realized that my dad had let go of the bike. Read More

Random thoughts from a nasty woman facing a long winter … One of my favorite political memes is “Nevertheless, she persisted,” said by Mitch McConnell to Elizabeth Warren back in February of 2017. She refused to be silenced while reading a letter into the Senate record written by Coretta Scott King opposing Jeff Sessions for… Read More

I ended up with neither straight nor curly hair. I have tried to push my hair one way or the other all of my life. Read More

Bike Trail The summer we bought our weekend house in a Connecticut community friends invited us to lunch and introduced us to Alice and her husband David. I learned that Alice had a doctorate in music,  had worked in both the music and the publishing worlds,  sang in a New York chorus,  and was a… Read More

I get very grouchy this time of year. I hate going into any kind of store, because they are invariably playing Christmas music. Even if they avoid the blatantly religious songs, and stick to “Holly Jolly Christmas” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” it’s still a reminder that for this entire month I am… Read More

I’m sure that among the filmed “memories” are some that I truly recall, but after so many viewings of the home movies I can’t be sure. Is it real or is it Kodachrome II? Read More

Our cousin Betty, before she became a celebrity to the pre-school set, was in a Broadway musical called Cafe Crown. Read More

Look What They’re Done to Your Pear, Milton Glaser! Lynn Truss who wrote Eats,  Shoots and Leaves: the Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation  is a woman after my own heart.   She wishes for a ‘grammar police force’  that would hunt down and arrest merchants with ungrammatical signs on their storefronts and others who abuse the… Read More

On one very memorable New Year's Day I married my second husband. Read More