A Halloween Ride
A Halloween Ride (I wrote this 40 years ago. It appeared in WEE WISDOM(October 1973) and was the first story I ever had published.) It...
THE CLEANING LADY WHO DIDN’T CLEAN(originally published in a different form in The Buffalo News)
THE CLEANING LADY WHO DIDN’T CLEAN I read THE HELP. I saw THE HELP. Now it’s regularly on Showtime. The female characters resonate with...
Something Different
Hi All, This week from Oct. 1-5, I am a guest blogger at Best American Poetry Blog. I published the five posts here first. I will be back...
BIRTHDAY LOVES AND STUFF
BIRTHDAY LOVES AND STUFF Last Tuesday was my birthday. My husband wanted to take me to Paris. It is not our time to go away. Being...
GIVE MY REGARDS…
GIVE MY REGARDS… It is bad enough they aren’t writing musicals the way they once did. And that we no longer have a Frank Loesser. Or a...
SAM AND JANET EVENING – (To Inez’s Mother at 100)
SAM AND JANET EVENING Dear Mrs. Erenstoft, You are the first person I know to celebrate a 100th birthday. I’d like to mark the occasion...
MAYBE YES, MAYBE NO
MAYBE YES, MAYBE NO 1. My stepson, Matthew, won another fencing tournament last week. He’s beenwinning a whole lot lately. When I...
HOW I AM SPENDING MY SUMMER VACATION
HOW I AM SPENDING MY SUMMER VACATION Rereading Dorothy Parker Is inspiring some verse Don’t despair, stay with me here Things could be...
Lasagna and Marge
In her 70s, my mother began to call some women “Marge.” The real Marge, a kind, caring neighbor, visited my parents with homemade cookies...
WHAT’S SO FUNNY?
WHAT’S SO FUNNY? In June, I was on the humor writing panel at the Hunter Writers’ Conference with three other writers who are also...