My Mother’s Birthday (COVID)
She would have been over 100. Never told us her age. Neither did her mother, Yiddish speaker named Anna from Roumania, who lived in Beverly Hills with my Uncl...
Category: Life and Death
The day before 3 people I loved were born (COVID)
The day before the birthdays of two good friends who died and my Aunt Blanche who died years ago. Evan was one of my oldest friends. We spent our childh...
Milton Glaser Died on His Birthday at 91
Milton Glaser died yesterday on his 91st birthday. Ideas said Milton when I called him on his 90th birthday ideas don’t go away because you are old. Moe l...
Some Things I Know
Davey was happy to talk on the phone when I called even though we hadn’t talked since college. He said he could describe his life if I had the ti...
Party for Joe
Saturday Joe celebration Joe loved parties people discussing everything he danced with Annie last New Year’s Eve at a bar on 72nd Street liked going to l...
There Are Always Poems
Even on difficult days when a close friend dies Things Happen the way they do because life is when Things Happen snow and a strange woman falls then she gets up...