As you may remember, I spent childhood summers with my family in the small Catskill town of Liberty, New York. (See MY HEART REMEMBERS MY GRANDMOTHER’S HOTEL, Dec 20, 2013) What you may not know is that one of my beloved childhood pets – a cat with a beautiful gray coat named Smokey – spent many a summer with us at my Grandma Esther’s hotel. Many years later when I was married and living in the city, we had another cat named Smokey who I once feared had been...
I must confess I often find myself goggling my college crush. Actually M was more than a crush, he was my steady boyfriend during my freshman and sophomore years, until I took a camp job that following summer and met someone else. But that’s another story. M was a class ahead of me and after the breakup we’d often see each on campus until the end of the academic year when he graduated and went off to law school. Years later after I was married and living in Manhattan, I was pushing...
We planned to be away last New Year’s weekend when our son, who follows the rock, jam-band Phish, had tickets for several shows during their annual Madison Square Garden winter tour. He and five of his Phish-loving out-of-town friends asked to stay in our Manhattan apartment during our absence. On that Friday afternoon one of the group offered to go down to the supermarket for groceries and my son asked him to also pick up a challah. “And tell them not to slice it.”, he...
One sunny Friday afternoon we went to our local coffeeshop for a quick bite and then to the garage to get the car for our weekend drive to Connecticut. My fair-skinned husband is prone to sunburn so after putting the convertible top down, he rubbed sunscreen on his face. Then as he drove I was scrutinizing his profile, as wives in passenger seats are apt to do, when I noticed a drop of something white on his shirt collar. At the coffeeshop he’d complained there was too much mayo...
I grew up in the Bronx on McGraw Avenue, a tree-lined street that bordered the beautifully designed and landscaped apartment complex called Parkchester. (See Parkchester, Celebrate Me Home) There were six or eight stores on our street, a bar called The White Gander, and several private houses with ground floor offices. My dad had his medical practice in one of those offices and we lived “over the store” in what we thought was the nicest house on the block, with two...
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