Last weekend we celebrated 34. The actual anniversary fell one week ago today; I noted it in last week’s blog (‘Cause it matters). We chose to officially celebrate on the eve before. Interestingly, we chose the “events” based on an unplanned interruption several weeks earlier.   I scored “twofer” tickets for Jersey Boys on February 16 at the New World Stages but a manhole fire in the street outside the entrance canceled that eve’s show. We were walking down the south side of ...

This one is for you, Mom!   As a daughter of immigrants who arrived in the U.S. in the early 1900’s, when your parents’ lives were threatened abroad in pogroms, you were raised with compassion and kindness, teaching you the importance of love and family. During the Depression, money was so tight but food was always on the table. You taught us about this unconditional love from your parents. And taught me to care and fight for the present day immigrant who came here to survi...

These three men have eased my pain and I am able to love life more this week because of them. No one is more surprised than me.   Lin Manuel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FnAvhvZXdo   POTUS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntF-ieEOgkM   Andrew Cuomo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peRK0NnexX0&feature=youtu.be   We believe in New York that an attack on any of us is an attack on all of us and that is what you have done. We tell our enemies, “We do not fear you, we pity...