Nov 13, 2023
None of the Above
I always hated this option on multiple choice exams. There was often a reason to suspect that one of the suggested answers could be...
Nov 2, 2023
Seated Around the Table Part Two: My Children’s Generation
Thanksgiving 1989 My children would probably say that I am a lot like my mother (pictured above). By the time they were old enough to...
Oct 10, 2023
Seated Around the Table
Part One: My Childhood At my writers’ group, we talked about a challenge suggested by Nina Raskin: Think about who sat at your table from...
Oct 7, 2023
On Ageism Awareness Day
2013 — Just retired and on a trip When I was 65, I stepped down from being Executive Director of Cherry Preschool to mentor the new...
Sep 13, 2023
My Hair-Raising Journey
This memoir is dedicated to my writing group I was born with black hair. Unlike my beloved cousin Annette, my mother didn’t have to cover...
Sep 8, 2023
Did Ken Steal Barbie’s Show?
Remnants of our original Barbies that my granddaughters also used After seeing Barbie with my daughter and granddaughter, my daughter...
Sep 6, 2023
Restaurants: Too Much Noise
During the pandemic, we decided to forgo indoor restaurants in the interests of avoiding unnecessary exposure to COVID. This summer, we...
Aug 8, 2023
Short People
With two of my granddaughters in 2022 When Randy Newman’s song, Short People, came out in 1977, I laughed. Clearly, it was a satirical...
Jul 27, 2023
Life is Not a Rubric
“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” Supposedly, Einstein wrote this on a...
Jul 12, 2023
Owning All of My Work
After reading an opinion piece in The New York Times debunking “maternal instinct” as a myth to keep women in their place, I considered...