

BILLY ELLIOT HARD
Yesterday I got an email from one of the two judges of the LOVE ‘N STUFF contest(April 20 blog post: My Mother, Willy Loman, And A...


MY MOTHER, WILLY LOMAN, AND A CONTEST FOR YOU
Before I saw Death of Salesman with Lee J. Cobb, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and the other Willys in between or even read the play, my mother...


22 Things I Don’t Like (there are more but I’m not going to bore you)
In the comments section of my February 17 blog post, “24 Loves,” Judy G. wrote, “So now we know what you love…how about your next list...


AUTHOR! AUTHOR!
When I finish Renee Watson’s totally engaging new young adult novel, THIS SIDE OF HOME, and leave the narrator, Maya Younger, and her...


DECLUTTER YOUR HOME OFFICE DAY
Two days ago, towards the end of CBS Sunday News, Charles Osgood did the upcoming weekly calendar and said that Tuesday (today) is...
The Envelope, Please
I’m soooooo glad I wasn’t a judge of the IS THIS LOVE? Contest. The entries are really good. I would have been hard-pressed to pick a...

THE BLESSING OF COMIC RELIEF
This essay was published in Hadassah Magazine-February/March 2015 Family Matters By Nancy Davidoff Kelton My niece through marriage died...


24 Loves
Dear Readers: The deadline for the “Is This Love Contest” has been extended to February 27. You still can enter. 35 words or less on a...


Call Me Marq
I’m taking a 10-session zumba class at the NYU gym for the fourth semester and not because I flunked. At the beginning of the first...


A Contest for You: Is this love, is this love, is this love?
Is this love, is this love, is this love, Is this love that I’m feelin’? I want to know, want to know, want to know now! Dear Readers:...