Cheesy Pennies

Dear Mom , I have a big surprise for your birthday today. For the first time ever, I think I found the perfect gift. Are you ready? Rem...

"They've got to come out." "Putting it off will only make things worse." "It's not healthy in th...

50 years ago, I was just new. 31 years ago, I fell, unknowingly, for the love of my life . 19 years ago, I was counting down to a due d...

When I was little, like maybe 7 or 8 years old, my parents went away on vacation. To Hawaii. Without us. My sister and I were very conf...

My son  has been a Clippers fan since he was barely able to talk. My daughter, on the other hand, was only a vampire for a day He ...

When we were growing up, my parents threw a lot of dinner parties.   My dad would spend hours making special mix tapes for the reel-to-reel ...

We went a little nuts with the baking for this year's Holiday Open House , even more so than usual . Mini pecan tarts .   Choco...

In the days leading up to Christmas, the volume of visits from representatives of the United States Postal Service* goes way up everywhere, ...

That line comes at the end of this wonderful scene in Tootsie . Teri Garr points an accusing finger at the lying Michael, says the lin...

My birthday is in the springtime, mostly. Sometimes it is a cold, chilly day, or a hot blue one, but more often than not the afternoon is b...

My grandmother was a very formidable woman. My grandmother, in the Virgin Islands, with four of her six children. My mom is on the left...

There was not much love lost for Michael Chabon's Telegraph Avenue  when I hosted book group today.  It was a big, over-written slog of...

Every Friday afternoon, my mom  used to come over. She'd have a load of groceries for us (mostly toilet paper), jokes she'd clippe...

A friend said to me tonight, "Hey, I like these little plates." Yeah, I said.  My mom got them for me. In t...