NANCY DAVIDOFF KELTON

Dear Readers, I wrote the below blog right before the Golden Globes. Before Meryl Streep gave her powerful speech. If you missed it,...

Simply put, 2016 was quite a year. My take on the election shock, deaths of legends, and other huge changes and losses add little to...

My student, Robert Iulo, gives me copies of the journals in which his essays appear. Last week he brought me “Tomato Slices” with his...

On the train last Saturday to Boston to see my 99-year-old mother-in-law who wasn’t feeling well and may have had another TIA, I read the...

I was thankful last week. I am thankful always. I'm adding a new Barnes & Noble item to my gratitude list. First, my deepest thanks...

Dear Leonard Cohen, You died the day before Hillary lost. Did you decide to leave before the shock? Before we became so angry? So sad?...

We didn’t see the flasher who lives next door, the drunk on the barroom stool, or discuss the election until dinner and then for three...

Larkin Square --Ted’s hot dogs --no snow, I hope --no sleet either, I don’t own a rain bonnet and if I did, I wouldn’t wear it --a talk...

New Sofa, New Month, New Year 1. Donating furniture is harder than getting into college, as I wrote here before. Our sofa was...

My tears fell from 9:00 yesterday morning when Charles Osgood, in his Sunday best, showed up for his last show until he sang, “So Long...