The Denim Cutoffs That Made Me Cry
The photo on the left is my friend Susan and her husband, Ron, standing in front of his beloved Datsun 280Z. Last summer, when Stan […]
More Than Fifty Shades of Gray
This is Stephanie and me at our 20th college reunion—right around the time my first gray hairs started to come in. For whatever reason – […]
Give Me a Child at 7 and I Will Show You the Man
Perhaps you’ve heard the expression, attributed to both Aristotle and the Jesuits, “Give me a child at 7 and I will show you the man”? […]
Very Serious Naches
One of the best things about putting a story out into the world is all the amazing stories you get back in return. This month […]
Looking at Pictures with Stan
This month the literary magazine The Main Street Rag published an essay I’d been working on for a while that meant a lot to me. […]
All The Things Inside Me That Had to Get Out
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last June, I was shattered. I couldn’t stop thinking about how a right I had taken for […]
What’s Love Got To Do With It?
When the writers group Read650 put out a call for essays about vows – the ones we take and the ones we break – I […]
The Ken Burns Effect
In the winter of 2020, when lots of New Yorkers were booking flights to the Caribbean, Stan and I went to Nashville. For that, you […]
A Retro Cookbook and Roe v. Wade
Last summer an old friend gave me a spiral-bound cookbook published in the 1960s by the Junior Auxiliary of Frick Community Hospital in Mount Pleasant, […]
Come hear us read!
This Sunday, Nov. 13, Read650, in collaboration with City Winery New York, presents “Vows,” a show about the promises we make to effect changes in […]