NANCY DAVIDOFF KELTON

My missing neck part of the title is not supposed to scare you. It has nothing to do with my “beautiful brain” (of my January 6 blog...

1. This dog was my husband’s seatmate on his Charleston flight last Thursday. The owner napped. The dog did not. When I asked Jonathan...

At the New School where I have been an adjunct instructor since 1980, I have gotten to know: –many students. Those who take my writing...

Sid Caesar’s death last week made me think of the comedy sketches in “Your Show of Shows.” The writers of his show were top-notch. I...

Below, beginning with the next paragraph, is the post I planned to use last week before Philip Seymour Hoffman died. I added a few lines...

I wrote a blog about movies, which I started to post yesterday, when I read about Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death. My husband, stepson,...

Never say never, but I probably won’t: take a cruise buy stock in the Royal Caribbean Line visit friends in Buffalo, my hometown, this...

St. Croix is hilly. Our friend’s house on a hill overlooks the Caribbean and the beach. It’s quiet. The only sounds are those of birds,...

1988—1990: People I know are buying computers and think I should buy one, too. I think they are nuts. Technology and I are not a fit. ...

Parts of my holiday season were fun. Not Christmas Day when I visited the hospital emergency room with horrible jolts of pain in my head...