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…
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…