Tomorrow! The Ides of March, the Oscars, and what would be my Julius’ 37th birthday! Reflecting: Decades ago, as a single mother, my daughters would periodically covet something of mine that I was not ready to ‘hand over’ and so the phrase for such moments became: “Can I have it when you die?”..hahaha…of course my … Read more
Sitting in my car in the Santa Monica Staples parking lot, gathering documents once again for FEMA,….a gorgeous Afro American woman pulled into the parking space next to me, climbed out of her car with a tiny dog dressed in ballet clothes, turned to me and said “My GOD it’s hot and are you an … Read more
My friend, my brother in spirit, has been on the frontlines of world crises for decades…Afghanistan, Yemen, Nigeria, and on and on…he ran a hospital in Gaza for two years and has been doing the same in Jordan for the last 18 months. Most of the patients are children and women who are overflow from … Read more
My mother’s mother was a formal, formidable aristocrat. She was born in the 1880’s at a time in history when women were not widely educated. She earned a college degree and in the early 1900’s became a librarian. My grandfather, as a young lawyer, fell in love with her at first sight in the library, … Read more
