Fall in Manhattan is beautiful.  Tourists flock to the Park, the stores, the restaurants when the air is crisp, the sun warm, the leaves glorious and the sky as blue as any in California.  Back in 1979, Macy's seized the opportunity.  On its Main level, it installed an arcade that cate… Read full post »

I have my mother's house.  I own it with my sister.  She wants to sell it, I want to keep it.  In that situation, should it come to be , a court would force a sale.  I could buy her out if I had the money which I do not.  I visit my… Read full post »

Little Midnight

One week ago today  I took Midnight to the vet for the second and the last time.  Midnight was our cat. He came into our lives five years ago when he was nine.  Despite our nearly thirty years of marriage, Midnight was our first "large" animal.  Before Midnig… Read full post »

On August 30, 1973, “pre-global warming”, there was no hotter place on earth than Manhattan’s upper west side. It was orientation weekend for Barnard and Columbia colleges and, as a last minute legacy admit to Barnard College, I was there. Back then, air conditioning existed only… Read full post »

How can having a great college on your resume be embarrassing? When you didn't deserve to be there, in the first place. I had gotten into two perfectly respectable colleges. I did not get into my first choice and the wailing from my bedroom would have broken any mother's resolve.… Read full post »

Nothing says “Thanks, but no thanks” like a job interview for a 56 year old woman like me who is trying to improve her lot in life. It is not like I have been hogging the great jobs all these years. Thirty-four years ago, I started out as the junior secretary… Read full post »

The Bay of Pigs happened when I was a six year old child on vacation with my parents and my sister in Miami, Florida. We stayed at the Aztec hotel next to the King Neptune on Miami's resort strip. The Aztec's exterior was a blinding white stucco; its interior a… Read full post »