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 …
Category Archives: Good Samaritans
NCNM
National College of Natural Medicine. My NYC Chinese Dr. said to continue my acupuncture treatments in Portland and sent this recommendation. Naturopathic and Chinese medicine teaching college. And she added the words, if you want acupuncture, Portland is the place!
The Blind
Their laughter was infectious, but it was the hustle and bustle at the front of the bus that was eye-catching. Their walking sticks combined with the carried packages and bags made the bustle. Their sticks, white and collapsible, indicated that both of them were blind. They rode a few blocks, and then with continued laughter …
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 …
One of the Least of Us
Stepping off the curb, mid block, with peonies in hand I glanced down. Two eyes were looking up at me. Startled. Me, not it. A lone pigeon, tight up against the curb, between a BMV and a Lexus. At first I just stood there looking down. Knowing I had to do something, hoping it wouldn’t …
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 …
The Bus
Why it’s great to ride the bus. #1. you can see where you’re going and where you want to get off. #2. it’s like a tourist ride for the price of the fare. #3. the plethora of persons that the bus gathers as it rolls along the streets. Every strata of life from the boisterous …
The Best
Yesterday, at an audition for a commercial that was searching for a grandmother. What a delicious sight it was to see a room full of women: young to old, tall to short, fat to thin, white to brown, blue, green, brown eyed, long hair, short hair, curly hair, straight hair, silver, white to black hair, …
Good Deed
It wasn’t rainy, windy or dead of night, but it was a bus not stopping for the little old lady waiting at the bus stop, in the late dusk at 6:30 pm. So, from my seat at the window, I didn’t call out, I yelled, ‘Sir, there’s a lady that wants to board’. Having yelled …
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’ …