I hurt my knee this week. So when I was about to go out, my husband suggested I take my trekking stick …just as a precaution. A stick? As...

Every weekend, a woman dressed like one of those Russian nesting dolls stands outside my local grocery store selling a paper that...

Last month I was having a conversation with a British friend who sniffed disapprovingly as he said: “Well this whole business really...

I was standing at a dinner party with a group of women recently when one of them said… (and let me interject here, that the woman was...

It happened at 4:30 on Thursday before Good Friday. A four-day weekend just minutes away. I was in the kitchen unpacking groceries and...

My husband has had a hell of a day. In fact there’s no need for him to even open the front door, he’s so small and weary he can just slip...

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...