People

In the 70's, Erica Jong stunned and delighted readers with her jaw-dropping, powerful feminist voice. We found ourselves always torn between the mothers in our heads and the women we needed…

(reposted with editing) I was searching for something else when I stumbled upon the Grimm Brothers. Daguerreotype 1847 Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm  (1786–1859), were German academics. They are among the…

I loved my Bubbe.* I was probably around 9-years old when she moved from Traverse City, Michigan, to our hometown, Cleveland, after she broke her leg and couldn't get around…

Friends of the Siegel family rejoice at Keith's release.

Screenshot I was watching Steven Colbert the other night. It might have been a rerun but he interviewed former Treasury Secretary (Biden administration) Janet Yellon. She charmed him—and me.  So…

The Talmud teaches that the sanctity of the post-worship meal merits promising judgment in the next world.  I was sitting at a 6-foot round with some of the older synagogue members. Comfortably conversing with my…

. . . Edgar* took a dramatic drag and exhale. Pulling at his 14-carat gold cuff-linked sleeves, The Palomino Club’s$ head bartender waited for me to slink away, shamed. We ended…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-dX3yFkLVE He just seemed sad to me. A few times we dined with Randy and his first wife (and manager), Lib Hatcher. I don't have any memory of where. Usually…

Driving home from grocery shopping, this weekend, A Thousand Miles from Nowhere (1993) came on my Sirius station. I'm a thousand miles from nowhereI've got bruises on my memoryI've got…

Candye Kane, an ex-stripper/part-time phone-sex operator turned country music and blues queen, had a fifty-four-inch bustline, a heart as big and warm as the San Fernando Valley, and a smile…