The following year with Michele was mostly magical. She was a gracious hostess in what seemed like an enchanted tea party, speckled with moments of relative madness. She was the psychedelic version … more

A few years passed before I first saw Michele again at a festival in town, and to my surprise! My initial thought was, “Wow! Michele has apparently reinvented herself... as a clown!” No … more

This week brings to my heart the memory of my dear friend and mentor Michele Weinstein Schuchman, aka Grandma Michele. (To do her legacy justice, this article will be presented in several … more

Over the past year, Americans turned grey en masse. For some, it might have been the stress, for the rest, it was the inconvenience of quarantine-restricted hairdressing. Either way, they were all in … more

At seven years old, I wrote my first list. Truthfully, I copied the same list of things to do that day that Toad wrote in “Frog and Toad Are Friends,” by Arnold Lobel. (In my version I … more

I once had the responsibility of teaching health and nutrition to incoming students at Job Corps. This residential program run by the Department of Labor offers impoverished youth from ages 16 to 24 … more

There is a place where winter lasts from November through April when days are short on sunshine. Nights too long and cold, weather dark and dreary. No, it is not the Catskills. It is where the … more

To be clear, the warrior chick is not the author, but literally a pullet named Daisy. Pairing here poultry-inspired philosophy with Hunter Hill’s article on unforeseen blessings (River … more

I began this year with unsubstantiated optimism: 2020, The Year We See Things Clearly. With 2020 coming to a close, I can see where I could have been very wrong about that. Of late, reality … more

It was on a Wednesday this September that I had pulled off the road to catch my bearing when working my first day in our neighboring Delaware County. While checking maps and apps, an officer in a … more