Rants of the Newly Old

Here is what I read at Creative Expression NYC this evening.    I don’t know the names of anyone before my great-grandmothers, and only thre...

I am working on a poem about what I know of the women in my family for Women's History Month. This is only the beginning.   Who are the ...

Grandpa Sam Leibowitz came to the United States at 16, in 1907, the year of the greatest immigration to the U.S. in th...

I know much more about my mother’s family, and her mother’s family. Here is a formal photo, from about 1928. M...

My mother’s parents were much more in our life than my father’s. When I was a child, my father was out of work after being blacklisted f...

Across the Sea Two ships sail west across the Atlantic. The first carries what the shipowners call "ca...