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
RETIRING FROM TEACHING
RETIRING FROM TEACHING by Nancy Davidoff Kelton- April 2026 issue I stopped teaching in 2024. I began in 1971 when I graduated from college. My first job was at a public school on New York’s Lower Eastside as an Above Quota Teacher, an in-house substitute. I covered for absent teachers before outside subs were called. Many of the students acted out. Getting outside subs at our school was difficult. Few subs came back a second time. As the AQT, I brought YERTLE THE TURTLE,