In the late Herman Wouk’s  (who passed recently at age 103) coming of age novel “Marjorie Morningstar”, a young actress endures heartbreak while struggling to build a theatrical [...]

As I watched Michael Cohen testify before the House Oversight Committee, I heard the voices of my late law-abiding, left of center,  and religious parents: “A fixer for Donald Trump whose [...]

Geometric. Abstract Expressionism. Found Paper. Personal Statement This was our cycle of study. This was our structure; within these rules, unbridled creative freedom. For the past three years, I [...]

Based upon respect for a highly accomplished activist friend, I decided to attend the meeting at a local independent bookstore about participating in the upcoming Women’s March. My hope was [...]

Our collective vulnerability to emotional manipulation was highlighted amid anticipation of, during, and in the aftermath of, the White House Occupant’s nine minute address seeking broader [...]

It was honorable, heroic, and horrible. I made the $116 monthly payments because I’d signed the papers and didn’t want to ruin my credit rating. Unlike two of my older siblings, who [...]

Twenty years after the bat mitzvah of my niece, and less than a week before Halloween, her Pittsburgh synagogue was the site of the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in the history of the United [...]

After three weeks in the woods as a “Writer in Residence” at Byrdcliffe Arts Colony (working on my novel “The Wife in Winter: Oaths of Fealty”, spending time with exceptionally talented artists [...]

My son and I drove to Manhasset, a suburban town not known for diversity, where the nearest art cinema is improbably located. Several years ago, while driving home from Manhasset, after a [...]

In July, I spent six days at “Literary Feminist Woodstock 2.0 with Exponents”, otherwise known as the International Women Writer’s Guild annual conference at Muhlenberg College. [...]