New York cabs sure have changed since I last rode in one. Granted, it’s been more than two years since I’ve been in New York City, but getting into a cab Friday was like being a Stephen King character and waking from a coma to find that the world has been turned upside down, […]
Floridian in the Big Green Apple
Attention airport security: Florida clothes in carry-on may cause blindness. I’m packing today, for a trip to New York City, where I’m hoping my lack of New York clothes won’t make me the laughingstock of the lower east side. (“Look at the lady, mommy!” “Shush, darling. She can’t help it; she’s from Florida.”) My […]
Grace the Wonder(ful) Dog
Even Grace could find the humor in wearing a red yarmulke on Christmas. I miss my dog, Gracie, so much. She’s been gone for a little over 24 hours and I already miss her. We had her for nine years, about half of my life as a stay-at-home mom. I’m not one of those […]
Radio Head
I was recently on a radio show and I’m afraid I bombed. I’m not sure, because I’m afraid to listen to it. But that’s never a good sign. The host of the radio show, Tracy DeGraaf, a stand-up-comedian, writer and mother of five boys, told me afterward that her media coach “said we both […]
And the Walls Come Tumbling Down
They’re tearing down my old high school next week. Today, there is an auction, where “everything must go!” and they’ll gut the building to the bare walls. When they get to Mrs. Alexander’s classroom, I hope they don’t find Rick Landy’s squirt gun behind the heater. High school teachers have super powers to infinity […]
The Day I Didn’t Meet Helen Thomas
That guy in the background probably didn’t meet Helen Thomas either. I was pregnant. What’s his excuse? Poor Helen Thomas. She’s really in it up to her neck, isn’t she? She said something anti-Semitic and even though it was obviously the confused rantings of a 125-year-old woman, it still didn’t come out very good. […]