Suprise Me

I broke with personal tradition and resolved to change myself Read More

The full description of the CWP program included an interesting reference to one of the takeaways from the course, something called “Trigger Finger Etiquette”. NO, NO, NO, that’s not “manners”. Read More

Melting (Soup) Pot One afternoon taking a break between chores I stopped for lunch at the 2nd Ave Deli,  one of my favorite eastside haunts. After a leisurely meal I was waiting on line to pay my tab when I overheard the following conversation at the take-out counter: Young Asian woman:   “What soup do… Read More

The Lion,  the Witch, and the Wardrobe Most New Yorkers have either a good or a bad real estate story.  Here’s mine and it’s a happy one! We moved into our 2 BR, 2 BATH, RIV VU upper eastside apartment when our son was less than a year old.  We loved  our building,  our local… Read More

Only My Hairdresser Knows for Sure Oops,  now everybody knows for sure! Retroflash / 6 Words – Dana Susan Lehrman Read More

As an adult, I have given public final farewells for three important people in my life: my father, my mother, and my ex-husband. Read More

I look back along the gently curving corridor of my life... Read More

As sexist as it is, I do miss the old Marshall Field’s mantra, “Give the lady what she wants.” Read More

Ah, comedy. The universal language of amusement, the oil that keeps the gears of social interaction turning smoothly (except when it throws monkey wrenches into those gears, but that’s part of the fun, right?). Laughter has been echoing through caves and amphitheaters since well before punchlines were even a twinkle in some early human’s eyes.… Read More

1967. The Summer of Love was the summer between my junior and senior years of high school. I was going to turn sixteen at the end of August — which meant that I had been claiming to be sixteen for months. I thought I was very sophisticated and wise. Retrospect readers may have already seen… Read More