Sally Ride, First American Woman In Space, Is Dead

You should see me — grating lemons and making a lemon pie, which has just come out of the oven with slightly browned peaks of meringue; now sitting back on the couch, on which I have placed two fluffy pillows  [more...]

Here’s a scene you would only see in Silicon Valley: this is an example of the magazines in the waiting room when I went to get a cholesterol test today at the Santa Clara Kaiser Permanente medical center…

I’ve just started to read another of Helene Hanff’s delightful books, “Apple of My Eye,” a love letter of sorts to New York City. It was written in 1976, amidst a bankrupt city government and the  [more...]