Pete Philipps — April 8, 1957. The date probably doesn’t mean anything to anyone alive on that date, but for me it was—and remains—hugely memorable...

1. Simone De Beauvoir —There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that..

Judith Wasow — In my family I am referred to as the Grinch, and it is true. I hate Christmas. Let me clarify. I think it..

Joan Holtzman — Not all Jews hate Christmas. Some of us like parts of it very much. I, for one, enjoy seeing houses seasonally adorned..

Joan Holtzman — Late last August, at a community party in a nearby park, I chatted with my neighbor Florence. I told her that the..

Pete Philipps — If at the very time my family was getting ready to flee Nazi Germany, anyone had suggested that one day I would..

Kristi Denton Cohen — The following are just a few of the many videos available for viewing on Kristi’s site. The first deals with shared housing,..

Kristi Denton Cohen — The first of these videos provides information about Co-Housing; an old concept made new again. At present there are 165 multi-generational..

As it happens, eight of the nine of us have made the choice, so far at least, to stay in the homes we’ve been in..

Alma Flesch – (This piece was originally written in June 2022 as a letter to the editor of the NYTimes in response to the article:..

Pete Philipps — We had been in America only a few weeks and living on the third floor of a walkup brownstone on West 188th..

Pete Philipps — After a day of slashing rain, icy gusts swept in from the north, turning the rain to fast-falling snow that rapidly blanketed..

Joan Holtzman — This is a reworking and updating of a piece I wrote about guns seven years ago, in 2015.  Back then I was..

Six writers share their personal connections to Ukraine: Pete Philipps, Judy Adler, Joan Holtzman, Carol Blitzer, Ruth Lowy, Nancy Moss. Scroll down to see all..