Not exactly sure I qualified for a series about “older writers,” I checked my birth certificate. It said 1927. “Hmm,” I said to myself. “that might work” I’ve spent the last 21 years teaching a memoir writing class which is still functioning. Well, of course, that is sheer hyperbole, since I have not devoted all […]

Here’s MY STORY of yesterday — a reminder of the good world!!!! I am returning home from a chore and about to pass Joseph’s Classic Market, where among the world’s most savory eats, exists my all time culinary delight : eggplant empanada at $7.99 cent a pound. I take a number. It is pre-Christmas crowded […]

  For 20 years and even more – I’ve looked back on each year Summing up the essence  like a “know it all” type seer Focusing on politics but spreading out on issues The highlights and the lowlights which made me reach for tissues But the 2020 apocalypse attacked our sense of “norm” And nothing […]

I don’t feel like organizing my “death” files — as I should. I don’t even  feel like organizing my “in” basket — as I should; I surely don’t feel like cleaning the drawers in my bathroom vanity– especially, the one where I saw the cockroach the other day. And on this Fourth of July, I […]

May, 2020 i am visiting a friend who lives in an assisted living facility. no visitors allowed in the building. no communal eating. food brought in boxes  to each individual  living behind closed doors. My friend’s apartment is on the ground floor and she has a tiny screened in patio that is half hidden by […]