Cabin Service
The wailing three rows ahead of me began a few minutes after my flight to JFK from LAX had reached cruising altitude. Seats emptied out around a woman whose incoherent litany grew louder by the…
The Universe of Hu
A simple trip to visit my daughter in New York City a few weeks ago involved a lot more than booking a ticket and packing a bag. I was grappling with hunger on a crude…
Featherbrained
It requires a breezy style or a keen sense of irony to pull off a rubber chicken purse in Manhattan. I have neither and it’s perhaps for this reason that my handbag, purchased at a…
Carved in Stone
Sometimes you just need a witness and that’s why I dragged my husband to revisit the cemetery across from the house where we were staying in New Canaan. It had been raining for days, spirits…