Write Through Doors

High school seniors (and their parents) are starting to feel the stress of college applications, and are beginning to call me to ask for help with their college essays.  I meet with them in my home office, which nowadays is my back deck.  We sit amidst pink and purple flowers and an occasional grey twitching […]

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Recently I visited my cousin Judy in Marin, near San Francisco.  Yes, the hiking was gorgeous, the shopping super trendy, the transvestites fun. But we Michiganders know we have more lakes than we can count, a summer we revere, wineries near Traverse City as beautiful as in southern France.  In Marin I finally got to meet Judy’s friend, Maryanne […]

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Our younger daughter, Sarah Merion, is presenting her first Tweetup .  http://rooftoptweetup.eventbrite.com/ If you don’t know what a Tweetup is, you are not alone. It’s a social meeting publicized by Twitter and other social media.  Sarah thinks the secret to her Tweetup’s popularity (it’s sold out two days before the event on June 4) is the free cupcakes from […]

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This post is dedicated to my mother, Helen Eisenberg, in honor of Mother’s Day. I love “firsts”.  They’re anti-boredom.  A reason to pay attention. Last week I saw something I’d never seen, when visiting the Toledo Zoo.  A mother monkey was teaching her baby to climb the inside of the cage next to her.    She would […]

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  The first swine flu reports in early May put me into overdrive as reports of the flu grew faster than the dandelions on my lawn after a Michigan rain. It wasn’t paranoia about having the back of my neck sneezed on in the movie theater, although I do hate that.  It was the M.S.W. […]

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