Cindy's Birthday and Our 59-Year Friendship
Dear Readers: The below essay was originally published in AARP's The Ethel on July 8, 2020. Today is Cindy's birthday, the fourth since we were 12 that I m not celebrating with her. Happy Birthday dear friend. I miss you all the time. (this is us in 2009 at the party the night before my wedding) On my 50th birthday, she took me to New York's Aureole and gave me a needlepoint pillow with the words “Old Friends are the Best Friends.” I ask
GIFTS ON FATHER’S DAY AND EVERY DAY
By: Nancy Davidoff Kelton June 2026 Issue My father got pneumonia 28 years ago in Florida. I had just turned 50. My mother had a broken pelvis and was recovering in the rehab unit of a nursing home. She thought Dad had a cold. My parents’ doctor and their covering doctor were both on vacation. The coverer twice removed admitted Dad to a local hospital near their condominium. Although I had visited three weeks before, my father wanted me there when he got the pneumonia diagnos
Good-Bye to Japonica
The Village View | May 2026 villageview.nyc BY NANCY DAVIDOFF KELTON THE LOSS OF A FAVORITE RESTAURANT is not as hard as the loss of a favorite friend, but there is a moving on and closing a door, and it is difficult. I was sad enough last summer when Elephant and Castle on Greenwich Avenue closed. For five decades, I regularly ate brunch and dinner there, sometimes with family and friends, sometimes alone. I was acquainted with a few waiters with whom I would chat. Only in t