“ Are you sure you don’t have eyes in the back of your head ,” I often asked him.   Carl is blind—has been since he was 14 and diagnosed...

I’ve had a headache for the past eight years. Ever since Donald Trump became president. And it won’t go away unless and until Kamala...

My husband Richard knows who he is and where he lives. He can scooter his way to the library and to the supermarket and knows how to come...

Richard and I have been married 40 years. No matter how loving a relationship, you can’t spend 40 years with a person and never let it...

When I was 60, I said, "I probably have 25 summers left. Now that I'm 85, I say, "I probably have 5 or 10 summers left."That’s how I have...

This is today’s reality for those of a certain age: Whether because of old age, dementia, or Alzheimer’s, many of us will end up having...

Last week I went out to buy a calendar planner. The one I was using was coming to the end of its 12 month year.  It’s a school year...

Now they tell me! Now they say that diets don’t work. I could have told them that myself. Years ago. The New York Times recently reported...

This week I drove to Great Barrington to spend a week in the same place I’ve been renting for the past five summers—a stunning white...

God bless Mental Health Days—the days that when you have the most to do, and you feel the least able to do them. Instead of working...

Although I love to leave the city in the summer, there’s no other place I’d rather live for the rest of the year, especially now that I’m...

Peanut butter is one of my all-time favorites. Forget the jelly. I love it with sliced bananas or apples, on a matzo topped with apple...

Not only does the Upper West Side boast of the best bagels, it also proclaims the best pizza! Mama's Too, just a block away from my...

In order to make my First Holy Communion, I had had to make my first confession. Not knowing what a sin was, I asked the nuns what to...

This is a picture of my 5th grade class at PS 69 in Jackson Heights, Queens. I am in the first row, fourth from the right. That year I...

Recently I drove to Great Barrington to spend a week in the same place I’ve been renting for the past five summers—a stunning white...

Who knew I had something in common with Anderson Cooper and Steven Colbert? Turns out both their dads died young, just like mine, when...

I first started writing my childhood memoir in a high school writing class. It wasn’t until 57 years later that I continued writing it in...

“Can we talk?” I asked my husband Richard. “Shu-err,” he said, dragging out the word to two syllables, meaning he’s not so sure he’s...

I never agreed to be 80. Never. When I said so to my daughter, she answered: “What’s the big deal? It’s only a number.” “Easy for you to...