Natalie Bivas — “What am I supposed to do with this cucumber sandwich?”, I wondered. I had just put it on my little paper dessert..

Joan Holtzman — Most of my friends and many readers of the OWL have lived our long lives in the shadow of the Holocaust. We..

Lillian Rand — A year ago at his time, I  was living in a beautiful Tudor home in the suburbs that I had lived in..

La Doris Cordell — IF I were the trial judge in any of the four criminal cases against Trump, how would I sanction him for..

Caryn Huberman — Nelly worked for us for almost fifty years. She was a member of the family, but we had to let her go...

Joan Holtzman —I write here about real owls, the actual birds that inspired our acronym.  The reason being that for almost two years these small..

Joan Holtzman — It is a small data point, but I want to report that most of my OWL friends are following the Trump indictments..

Evelyn Philipps — Following a recent fall at the home of my daughter, I was hospitalized for the first time since I was in a..

Pete Philipps — “How America does business” is an all-too-often mantra in our house. The most recent instance involved the installation of stair rails, as..

Andrew Eisner — I believe in science as much as the next rational person, but I have experienced enough situations where it seemed like science..

Carol Blitzer — A hundred years ago, my grandparents finally had enough money saved to buy fine china. They chose “Bridal Rose” by Epiag, made..

Pete Philipps — Recently one of the doors in our sunroom, which opens to a deck, became foggy, the result of a leak in the..

Joan Holtzman — When I first started Voice of the OWL a year and a half ago, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I hoped..

Pete Philipps 1 — A Fly Story — In an earlier story titled “Taxi, Taxi,” I wrote what it was like to be a copy..

Emile Offenbacher …. By the end of 1933 the dispersion of our family began. One year later, my parents had found a new home in..