

I RESOLVE…..
The last print issue of Glamour (January 2019) is on the newsstands. One of my earliest listicles, “31 Things I’m Not Going to do Wrong...


SUNRISE, SUNSET
I hadn’t planned on seeing FIDDLER ON THE ROOF in Yiddish. I know very little Yiddish other than words and phrases I picked up from my...


COW CUDDLING
The November 9, 2018 issue of THE WEEK had a paragraph on cow cuddling. A human being can have a 60-minute session, starting at $75 with...


I Am Thankful
I added a few words here and there to my last year's Thanksgiving blog. Happy Thanksgiving to you, dear Readers, new and longtime...


My Play’s My Thing / Vote
“The play’s the thing….” said Hamlet. My thing, too. I’m adapting my memoir, “Finding Mr. Rightstein” for the stage, blogging here about...


A Halloween Ride
(This story, among my first published efforts, appeared 45 years ago in the October 1973 issue of Wee Wisdom Magazine). It was Halloween...


My Red Sox Guy
Yesterday while I was reading the newspaper, my husband asked, “Will you take a picture of me in my Red Sox outfit?” “I didn’t know you...


Elaine May
I saw “The Waverly Gallery” in previews last night. Elaine May’s return to Broadway after 50 years is beyond wonderful. I am grateful my...


WRITER! WRITER!
I recently attended an event at The General Society of Merchanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York at which Erika Goldman, publisher...


25 Thoughts at the H-Ocean
In Montauk, looking out from our porch at the hocean. That’s what one of my grandmothers called the ocean. The hocean. I’ve been thinking...