LOVE n'Stuff
September 17, 2019
At Writers’ Night at a Chelsea bar, my talented friends, Mindy and Stephanie, read their work and my play section with me.
The heckler, who joined us, is not pictured here. He was at the bar. Man, was he loud!
Repertory theaters and play festivals without b...
September 4, 2019
My biker guy, who rode 88 miles for Dana Farber in Massachusetts, rode the Pacific waves in Santa Monica on a boogie board. I boogied in the pool. Babysitting our favorite charges and hanging out with them and their folks filled us up more. So much laughter. So muc...
August 18, 2019
I am honored to be reading with these talented writers at Kasteli Cafe on Sept. 9.
In addition to reading their work, my friends and gifted writers, Stephanie Hart and Mindy Greenstein, will read a section of my play with me.
Join us if you are in or near NY...
August 8, 2019
Inspired by Trump’s claim that he doesn’t have a racist bone in his body, Nicholas Kristof wrote this gem for the NY Times op-ed page.
My young, strong, gem of a biker guy rode 88 miles Saturday in the Dana Farber Pan Mass Challenge from Wellesley to Bourne, Mass. And...
July 18, 2019
I read “Mr. Know-it-All (The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder)” by John Waters by the water. The ocean. In Montauk. It went down well with waves and sand.
Talk about hilarious. Cool. Daring. Outrageous. Inspiring.
Waters’ truths, eccentricity,...
July 2, 2019
Still using rainbow plates and napkins from my reading. Some audience and cast members gave me super comments after, while eating the sushi and sandwiches I served. Grateful for ‘peeps’ who show up with ongoing support.
And for the musicians who play string instruments...
June 11, 2019
Below is an essay I posted here last year. It was published as an op-ed piece in The Buffalo News last June. The above picture was taken at the 40th birthday party my friend, Judy, threw for me.
I wish my father had gotten to meet my husband and my son-in-la...
May 23, 2019
On Saturday, I attended the Dramatists Guild Rejection Slip Festival at a bar in Brooklyn near Prospect Park.
I recently joined the Dramatists Guild. “Finding Mr. Rightstein,” the adaptation of my memoir with the same title, is my first play. I brought a rejection I’d...
May 6, 2019
(The below essay was originally published in The Boston Globe Magazine on May 9, 2010. When you finish reading it, there's a little "Mom" contest for you.)
By Nancy Davidoff Kelton
It takes a village to raise a child, but it can take a lifetime to appreciate Mom. I...