Not all that long ago I was riding on the subway and I stood up for a woman, offering her my seat. She fixed me with eyes of steel and...

One day at a photographer’s studio in Paris I saw a picture of a girl who looked exactly like me. It was decades ago but I remember it...

“That reminds me,” my husband says to the guests at the dinner table, “Have you heard the one about the pig and the dog?” …Oh God, please...

Okay, here’s a quiz: 1. Your friend has lost a great deal of weight and looks absolutely fabulous…. 2. Another friend has just landed a...

This photo was captured while on vacation in Israel. Besides being a ghastly picture of my husband and me (not to mention the décor), it...

I’m standing with a group of people at a fancy charity event. I kind of want to impress them so I’m talking…and talking. Because for some...

“… It's like the ticking crocodile, isn't it? Time is chasing after all of us.”― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan. A while back my husband received...

Last week at 4 in the morning I woke my husband in a major panic. “I’m going blind.” He rolled over and muttered: “Yesterday you had a...

It’s 6:30 am; I’m just finishing my first cup of coffee, and already my husband is asking what he should wear today. My first reaction...

I open the weekend newspaper and there it is: another column on the weighty subject: “Am I too old to wear…?” Reams of paper have been...