Reading my essay “Top Ten,” about training to be a tour guide at the Metropolitan Museum, at the Oct. 20, 2024 Writers Read show at City Winery NYC.
Reading my essay “Not Really Over,” about a cancer scare I had at the beginning of 2024, at the May 19, 2024, Writers Read show at City Winery NYC.
Reading my essay “The Wine Tasting,” about the first time my future husband met my parents, at the Sept. 22, 2024 Writers Read show at City Winery NYC.
Let it Bleed
Reading my essay “Let it Bleed,” about the mesmerizing impact of Merry Clayton’s voice, at the March 12, 2023 Writers Read show celebrating Women’s History Month in partnership with Carnegie Hall, City Winery NYC.
Besieged by my Genes
Reading my essay “Besieged by my Genes,” about how my genetic history was always very clear to me without having to do the 23andMe test, at the Jan. 22, 2023, Writers Read show on ancestry at City Winery NYC.
What’s Love Got to Do With It?
Reading my essay “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” about my decision to get married years after I started living with my future husband, at the Nov. 13, 2022 Writers Read show “Vows” at City Winery NYC.
How to Think About Money
Reading my essay “How to Think About Money,” about some valuable lessons I learned about the green stuff from my mom’s best friend, at the March 13, 2022 Writers Read show at City Winery NYC.
Reading my essay “The Haunted House,” about how my siblings and I turned the rickety, if not dangerous, second floor of a barn into a Halloween attraction when we were kids—and our parents let us get it away with it, at the Writers Read’s Halloween show on Oct. 17, 2021, at the New Rochelle Public Library.
Reading my essay “The White Meal,” about how a date at the Chicken Pie Shop in San Diego was a key moment in a relationship with my future husband, for the Writers Read show on May 31, 2021, during the Covid lockdown.
Reading my essay “Small Town Jews” about growing up Jewish in a place with almost no Jews, then moving to New York City, for the Sept. 14, 2020, Writers Read show “Jew-ish.”
Reading my essay “Lesbian Nation,” about crushing out on Jill Johnston in college but ultimately failing at being a lesbian, for the June 23, 2019 Writers Read show at City Winery celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising.
Reading my essay “Holidays Optional” about why I always end up in Chinatown on major holidays, for the Writers Read show on holidays, Oct. 21, 2018, at the New Rochelle Public Library.
Reading my essay “Helplessly Hoping” about being blown away by Stephen Stills 50 years after everyone else in my high school, at the April 29, 2018, Writers Read show “Back to High School” at the New Rochelle Public Library.
Reading my essay “The Spring Tea” about the hazards of being perennially underdressed at Writers Read’s “What We Wore” show at SUNY Ulster on March 19, 2017.
Reading my essay “The Majesty of Nature” about going to a silent meditation retreat with my super-cool aunt when I was a teenager and finding out some things I didn’t know, for the Writers Read “The Great Outdoors” show on July 7, 2016 at The Cell Theatre in New York.
Reading my essay “In Vino Veritas,” about various times I got drunk, including the night I flushed a vial of Valium down the toilet, and whether I discovered any eternal truths, at the Writers Read show on Oct. 11, 2015 at The Cell Theatre in New York.
Reading my essay “Kodachrome” about my amazing younger sister, and the anxiety and despair of watching home movies, for the Writers Read show “Siblings” on July 26, 2015, at The Cell Theatre in New York.