The Keep It – Toss It Syndrome

I’m referring to cleaning out closets and cabinets and chests of drawers when that dreaded reality of having to move hits.  For me it’s been about every ten years.  The way I see it, this next one (mid-March) requires a mammoth cleansing.  Then there will...

Stage Fright

Definitely not something I have.  You could stand me on a box in the middle of Topeka and I’d end up being elected their next mayor.  I think the solution to stage fright is really not giving a F who believes you and who does not.  Naturally U have to believe...

The Measuring Stick

They’re not wearing bell bottoms any more.  They’re out. Who is they? You know, the people that decide fashion for us.  Like this summer I hear ankle length capri pants are in. For me? Oh no not you, silly thing.  And they’re cuffing the bottoms too....

Heroin Helen

Not her real name but certainly a woman who deserved a clever calling card.  I met her when we bought a co-op far uptown on the West Side of Manhattan.  It was an area the realtors were calling Hudson Heights, but it was really just Washington Heights.  Regardless of...