April, 2023 Ok! I know, I know. You would not want to be driving behind my conspicuously yellow car, when I am at the wheel. So careful am I ! Cautious? Timid? All of the above? Isn’t that better than reckless? Even ‘back in the day,’ people questioned my ability to drive, as when I […]

Time to say Bye Bye to Twenty two And to tell you the truth – -“I’m glad it’s through” It promised to be kinda non-descript But I wonder what kind of concoction we sipped   Where to start on that blockbuster year When everyone knew someone LBGT or Queer When folks came to border states […]

It is election day plus one. The “stew” that is politics is still bubbling – and there is no way to extricate the individual ingredients that make it tasty – but it seems clear that its essence IS tasty! All kinds of people turned out to let us know that democracy is as important to […]

When our little family—my husband, infant son and his 3 year old brother —  began to bulge out of our small apartment, we moved to a more spacious house, in the early 1960s. Billie was our new next door neighbor. She and her husband had a two year old daughter and her belly was big with […]

 It was some time around our 10th anniversary in the early 1960s. He wanted to buy something special for me, and I had a yen for pearls.   We traipsed  into “the city” to the jeweler’s exchange on 47th street and exited with a fine choice of long  oyster-gems. He peeled off about $2000. in pocket cash, and we dropped […]