Feel The Love
Last week, my man and live-in music composer burned my fire by buying me a turntable and hooking it up with two speakers and a woofer in my office. This radical act of lovingkindness gave me no choice...
View ArticleGo, (HBO) Girls
HBO’s fearless, new comedy GIRLS has got… balls. It would be anatomically correct to say it’s got vagina, but female reproductive parts are not as easy to grab. And grab me, GIRLS has, and I’m only two...
View ArticleTongue-tied
Yow. I had gum surgery last week. A Herculean display of drilling and scraping and god-only-knows-what-else my otherwise pretty, proper periodontist was doing in there after she coolly injected my...
View ArticlePuppy Love
I meet a dog on the leafy streets of my hound-mad neighborhood, lounging on a bench in the shade. Small, fluffy and impossibly white; a Zen portrait of a clean conscience and absolute faith. My heart...
View ArticlePussy Riot Power
My maternal grandmother was born in Russia, 1905. A Jewish girl, she was chased through the hardship-splattered streets of her shtetl by a wild pig. To add angst to injury, when she hit adolescence,...
View ArticlePuppy Love 2: The Resurrection
Spoiler Alert: The following is the sequel to this furry little tale. I thought she was a goner. Dead dog walking. The old man told me she had canine TB and less than six months to live. Our sadness...
View ArticleThe Truth and Everything but
I write fiction. Real people are my inspiration but unlike science, I will never clone you. It’s near impossible for a fiction writer to expose the truth of the human condition, let alone offer hope...
View ArticlePuppy Love 3: Never Say Die
Spoiler Alert: The following is the second sequel to an undying tale. See it stand alone, or click on: Part 1 and Part 2. Now, for Part 3… I can’t stop thinking about the old man and that fluffy,...
View ArticleD.O.A.
If you haven’t noticed, I think about death a lot, cracking wise around the corner. It forces the moment, keeps me on the tip of my toes and reassures me that in the end, I’ll be in the arms of a...
View ArticleAll Living Things (Part 1)
I was thankful at dinner last weekend, feasting on spiced turkey and cranberry-stuffed squash, when this shy couple beside me (a business dude and his fuzzy-haired professor wife) drop a story on the...
View ArticleFantasia is my idol
Let me tell you about the righteous, raw female funk of Fantasia Barrino- whose body, soul and voice of god obliterated mediocrity for a few heart-pounding moments on American Idol last night. Fantasia...
View ArticleIn my garden of Eden
On my hands and knees in the backyard, planting seeds in the earth, I realize I am not alone. There is a small cluster of idiosyncratic people with names like Cookie, Fritz, Fanny and Dio milling about...
View ArticleThe Truth and nothing but
I just read an article in the NY Times by Brooklyn blogger Emily Gould about the extreme pitfalls of exposing your personal life on the web. I have rarely gotten into that kind of trouble. I was born a...
View ArticleIf you can’t stand the heat
I just read, or should I say, gobbled the book ‘Heat’ by Bill Buford. This A-list wordsmith left an editing post at the New Yorker to fulfill his fantasy of learning to cook at NYC’s Babbo; the 3-star...
View ArticleA day in a life
My oatmeal and banana this morning was bloodied by global injustice and crimes against humanity in the news. I chewed on one atrocity after the other (Woman; wakes from a coma, locked in a cellar for...
View ArticleWhere for art thou Borat?
Since a certain Mr. Sagdiyev (Borat- to his friends, fans and foes) blasted his way into the mainstream lexicon and my heart, I have been aching for more of his fearless, merciless tackling of the...
View ArticleHot Sex
Forgive me for the unimaginative (read: effective) titillation, but it is rare for me to want to share something so badly, I will use any cheap trick in the book to catch the eye. I am referring to the...
View ArticleMusic is healing
Montreal is climaxing culture these days. The loudest shout-out of the moment is the star-studded Festival International de Jazz de Montreal that scorches the already red-hot streets of our downtown...
View ArticleI love to laugh
Jews (as if you didn’t already know), tend to survive the harsh realities of life with humor, so we can stop crying, and shed some light in dark places. Last weekend, I saw my oldest and funniest...
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