Refuahs
Have you ever felt thoroughly bewildered, bamboozled, and beaten up by your health insurance plan? That is, if you’re lucky enough to have one? Not [...]
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Body Language
I was so proud to be part of the "Body Language" show at City Winery in April co-produced by Writers Read and the Bellevue Literary [...]
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Disco Desperados
What do these lines of lyric poetry … At first, I was afraid, I was petrified Kept thinking I could never live without you by [...]
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The Chocolate Mousse
In July 1969, the U.S. landed astronauts on the moon, and my family settled in for the month in an ancient château in a remote [...]
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The God Thing
As the year winds down, I’m so grateful to the literary magazines that have published some of my stories this year. This latest one, “The [...]
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Down These Mean Streets
At the beginning of the year I started thinking about a fictional private eye I once admired named Kinsey Millhone. Kinsey was the invention of [...]
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The Photograph
Stan took this picture at the Ninth Avenue Food Festival not long after we moved to New York in 1989. Ever since, it has never [...]
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Thinking About Egg Salad While Listening to Auden
I got the idea to write this essay when I was looking through old journals and realized that I had hundreds of lists of food […]
Overlooked No More
What a treat it was to write about the Sally Michel exhibition at the Morris Museum in Morristown, New Jersey! Michel was a gifted artist […]
Stir-fry Cancer
Not long ago I marked the 20th anniversary of a major bout with cancer. It was an experience I never thought I’d forget. But inevitably, […]