

My Memoir Title and Book Cover
ANNOUNCEMENT! Below are the back and front covers (in smaller version) of my memoir, FINDING MR. RIGHTSTEIN, which will be published in...


Writers and Family and Turkeys, Oh My!
We went to Newton, Mass. on Friday for a family visit and to attend my former student/now friend’s reading. Both were great fun. We...


Nora Tonight
The Nora Ephron HBO documentary will be on in a half hour. I just pulled out the op-ed piece I wrote for The BUFFALO NEWS right after...


Canine Updates/Work Updates
A neighborhood dog walker I recognized, heading up Sixth Avenue yesterday, was reprimanding the frisky schnauzer, not the two mutts and...


It was a good time, it was the best time.
When I arrived Saturday afternoon to give my workshop at Turn of the Corkscrew Books and Wine, the stack of my books, WRITING FROM...


The Poem Behind the Corn
At Laube’s Cafeteria in Buffalo where my family often ate in the ‘50s, the following poem was on the wall behind the side dishes, more...


Here’s to you Ms. Robinson: How to Write Good
I get a kick out of the face book posts of my Bennett High School classmate and friend, Michael Serota. When I wrote him that I ‘liked’...


MY TOES
I broke 2 toes. The second and third on my left foot. I didn’t break them in the snow during the storm or doing anything sexy. No. I...


THAT’LL BE THE DAY
Loss brings pain. Yes. But pain triggers memory. And memory is a kind of new birth, within each of us. –Sue Miller During a recent bout...


7 Major Musical Events the First 2016 Weekend
The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra’s New Year’s Day Concert playing Strauss filled me up inside. So did joining my grandson Sunday in The...