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 […]
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 […]