End of 2015 Roundup/Happy 2016
It was six weeks between my last post, MATCHMAKER, MATCHMAKER, and the one before it, TURN OF THE CORKSCREW. Writing, revising, revising...
Matchmaker, Matchmaker
I’m one of the few Jews in New York NOT in the current production of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. I did; however, sit in the fifth row of the...
Turn of the Corkscrew
I am rejoicing. The other day, I bought my husband THE EMPEROR OF ALL MALADIES by Siddhartha Mukherjee at Turn of the Corkscrew, a new...
Furiously Happy and a Little Bit Sad
My New School fall class, Writing From Personal Experience, ended last night. Today I started to get post partum-y. I loved reading my...
Winner/More
Two judges picked Carole as the winner of the Sept. 15 contest. Yeah, Carole! Congratulations to you. Here is her wonderful entry: “Dumb...
4 TRUTHS AND A CONTEST FOR YOU
4 TRUTHS AND A CONTEST FOR YOU Happy Rosh Hashanah! Not to get all self-helpie, but Wayne Dyer’s obituary, the first thing I read after a...
A SAM AND JANET EVENING
Janet Erenstoft (1912-2015) Today September 8th would have been the 103rd birthday of my first best friend’s mother. She died last month...
My Big News
A short post with big news: my memoir has been accepted by Passager Books, affiliated with the University of Baltimore. It will be...
My Heroes
Thurs. two days before the bike event: I bought the healthy snacks my wonderful AARP editor, Allan, a long distance biker, told me to buy...