Lynne Truss, who wrote Eats, Shoots and Leaves: the Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, is a woman after my own heart. She dreams of a grammar police force that would hunt down and arrest merchants with ungrammatical signs in their shops and others who also abuse the King’s English. I have similiar peeves, in fact I dream of a tasteless and tacky police force. I’d send them right to East 86th Street to rescue the pear! In the 1980s the gifted graphic artist Milton...
Recently my son developed a painful kidney stone for the second time in the past few years. He was hospitalized and treated and all is well now, but I was reminded of the first time it happened. My husband and I had just gotten off a flight from New York to San Francisco for a family celebration on the same day our son was flying to Turkey for a conference when my husband’s cell phone rang. It was our son. “I landed in Istanbul and I’m heading for the hotel, but I...
Every spring as Passover approaches I found myself laughing again over something that happened many years ago. We were having 18 for Seder and after calling the butcher to order lamb for my traditional stew, I wrote out a long shopping list for everything else I needed and headed out to the supermarket. Not surprisingly, the store was busy and I was navigating my shopping cart down a crowded aisle when I suddenly realized that the shopping list I had been clutching was no longer in my...
Like most of us I have lots to worry about in my own little corner of the world, but every now and then I’m reminded of the bigger picture. The other nite we watched The Thin Green Line on the PBS series Nature and got some more bad news. It seems frog populations all around the world are dying out as humans encroach on their natural habitats, and continue to pollute the environment and contribute to the global warming that’s throwing the earth’s ecosystems out of...
Recently my friends Pat and David and I were planning a reunion for our old teaching colleagues at Jane Addams, the small inner-city high school where we first met in the 1980s. Pat was our principal then and she was justifiably proud of the school, described by the local press as “an ossis in the south Bronx”. And indeed the blight and devastation in the neighborhood was countered by the warm, nurturing environment within the school, and by the achievements of our...
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