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 […]
Church of the Heavenly Vegetables
For the past 15 years, I’ve gone to a landmarked church on the Upper East Side to pick up my weekly vegetables at one of […]
Susan’s Rembrandt
Way back in 2009, when I started training to be a docent at the Met, I knew I would learn a lot about art, including […]
Off the Coast of New Jersey
I was always amazed at the power of Long Beach Island, a skinny strip of sand off the coast of the mainland. We used to […]
Epiphany at the Metropolitan Museum
In this essay for Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, I write about the Disney film Beauty and the Beast, my family’s furniture store, and an epiphany at the Metropolitan Museum […]
The Library in the Laundry Room
In this essay for the online literary magazine Potato Soup Journal, I write about the library that sprang up in the basement of our New York […]
How to Think About Money
When the literary forum Read650 put out a call for essays about money, I knew I had to write about my mom’s best friend Adele, […]
The Truly Scary Things in Life
In March 2020, when theaters went dark, Read650 was poised to present a live show at the New Rochelle Public Library. More than 18 months later, the writers’ […]
The Chicken Pie Shop
A couple years ago, Stan and I went back to San Diego, the place where we got together. I hadn’t been there in many years, […]