Selected WorksBook
WEDDING DAYS: WHEN AND HOW GREAT MARRIAGES BEGAN
Inspiring Wedding Stories for Every Day of the Year Family Histories
Finding Family, and Making Peace
A granddaughter's search for family split apart by divorce and war Settlement House Spirit Lives on in a New York School for Immigrants
A former high school for Jewish women now helps all kinds of immigrants Holocaust, and Family History
Bearing Witness in Ukraine
Heading east toward my own personal heart of darkness. A Torah Lost and Found, and Found Again
Sixty years after my great-uncle's Torah was first lost and found, a newly-found second cousin locates it for me. Humor
A New Broom Sweeps Clean -- Except When a House is Involved
Getting rid of the ghosts of owners past. Raking Dad Over the Coals
Why do so many husbands only cook outdoors? Wedding Dazed
Do you have pre-wedding jitters? So did some famous couples! Op-Ed Page
To Save One Life...
On a trip to Amsterdam, darkness and light and the Shoah ever-present Travel
Historic Hiroshima
A New Yorker visits the original "Ground Zero." |
My WorksWEDDING DAYS: WHEN AND HOW GREAT MARRIAGES BEGAN
From Pocahontas to Priscilla Presley, Annie Oakley to Yoko Ono, Grace Kelly to Coretta Scott King, no woman ever forgets her wedding day. In 366 stories, WEDDING DAYS reveals surprising, humorous, passionate and romantic details about how extraordinary couples met, wooed, and wed. Whether an illicit elopement or state occasion, these weddings of celebrities and statesmen, artists and abolitionists, royalty and rebels all share a sense of joy and promise ... as well as the occasional jitters. Find out what John Lennon and Yoko Ono wore (March 20); what Elvis sang as he carried Priscilla across the threshold (May 1); why Napoleon and Josephine shared their wedding night with her nasty pug dog (March 9); why Thomas Edison proposed in Morse Code (Feb 24); and which woman inspired the Taj Mahal? (March 27.) Finding Family, and Making Peace
An eighty-year old battle divides a family Settlement House Spirit Lives on in a New York School for Immigrants
If you look closely above the front door of Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day High School, you can see the acronym "HTSG" carved in stone. The letters stand for Hebrew Technical School for Girls.... Bearing Witness in Ukraine
What mattered most was to show up, bear witness, and remember. A Torah Lost and Found, and Found Again
Through diligent research and the marvels of online Jewish genealogy, I find, at last, the Torah I'd heard about for so long. A New Broom Sweeps Clean -- Except When a House is Involved
No matter how empty a house looks after you've bought it, stuff remains. Raking Dad Over the Coals
Learning to embrace my husband's culinary limitations. Wedding Dazed
As soon as I said, "Yes, I'll marry you," I panicked. Had I actually uttered those four bombshells? To Save One Life...
In Amsterdam recently, I awakened to the smell of something burning. I wasn’t alarmed, however, and sensed quickly that the pungent odor was more annoying than dangerous, and that my hotel wasn’t on fire. Historic Hiroshima
Standing at the original "Ground Zero" is a chilling experience for anyone. For New Yorkers still reeling from the World Trade Center attack, it felt all too familiar.... |
