NANCY DAVIDOFF KELTON

This is my article published in the January, 2026 Village View. Happy New Year to you all. Love, Nancy My 36 Resolutions for 2026 By Nancy Davidoff Kelton 1. Go to the gym three or four times a week. 2. Use as many machines as I do towels. 3. Do not count by threes when I do sit-ups. 4. Do all the stretches on the list my physical therapist gave me. 5. Do not expect the stretches to make me taller. 6. Do not work out at the gym when my husband is working out there. He burns m

This is a revision of a blog I posted several years ago.  Happy Thanksgiving to you all.   I am thankful I don’t have to line up in size places. Or take SATs. I am thankful that the farmers market is a block away. And that I can walk there, to the theater and to my favorite restaurants and bookstores. Alone or with my husband, whom I am thankful for every day. I am thankful I can walk. I am thankful for work that engages and excites me. I am thankful for the loyalty and suppo

BY NANCY DAVIDOFF KELTON This article is in the November 2025 issue of The Village View A few weeks ago, I graduated from physical therapy after six months of treatment for sciatica. Now, except for getting out of bed in the morning, standing up quickly from a chair, or stepping down from the curb, which often give me a quick sharp pain in my spine, I am fine. When I stretch before getting out of bed in the morning, once in bed for the night, and when I keep my tummy and but

OCTOBER 2025 My Most Transformative Birthday By Nancy Davidoff Kelton Author Nancy Kelton as a little girl with curly hair. Photo courtesy of Nancy Kelton. I celebrated my birthday in September. Several friends and family members took me to dinner. I received cards, flowers, emails, and hugs. I had lunch with a longtime friend, whose birthday is the same week as mine. It was the first time we’ve gotten together since her husband of 44 years died four months earlier. We discus

“If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t f_ _k ‘em.” ...

Nancy Davidoff Kelton is a playwright, essayist and book author.

Dear Readers: I got this letter 8 years ago. The person who wrote it sent it to Penguin Random House, the publisher of my book, Writing...

On Friday May 30, the East 9th Street block between University Place and Broadway was named the Terrence McNally Way.  I attended the event.  I am a huge McNally fan.  I’ve seen most of his plays, some more than once.  His partner Tom Kirdahy, who still lives in the apartment they shared, hosted the event.  It was totally terrific. Very warm.  Very community.  Very theater. Very New York. Jonathan Groff spoke.  Jonathan Groff can do Everything, including hug me. Here he is wi

(updated version of April 3, 2012 Passover/Easter Blog)   On Easter Sundays when I was young We went to the Buffalo Zoo To participate in...