Waaaaay Back!

Tonight, Carol and Richard and Donna and Naomi and David and ‘little sister Ruthie’ came to the Mousetrap.  The last time they saw me on stage was with them in senior year of high school.  Not quite yesterday!  Thank you for your generosity in making time and being so enthusiastic.  You were a delight.  In …

Super-Star Mother

She watched as her adult son and daughter-in-law boarded the train in suburban CT, bound for the City. As he stepped over the gap between the platform and the train, the pants on the hanger from the cleaners slipped off their perch and disappeared into the abyss below. As his eyes registered his horror and …

More The Bus

And the bus drivers:  I have heard Denzel Washington, James Earl Jones, Oprah announcing the next stops.  And I have seen the doubles for Denzel, Whitney, and Roseanne Barr driving the busses.  These persons are courteous, sane, competent and now and then especially humorous.  One recent evening, I was dressed upper-west-side to attend a YCA …

What Do You Think?

She boarded the bus but I did not pay her attention except to notice she was well dressed and that she sat down behind me.  A stop later the bus driver turned around in his chair and said ‘Miss, would you come here please’. He was looking right at me. I pointed to myself, ‘Me’ …