March 2010
4 posts
Excerpt from Capricorn Rising
Below is a brief excerpt from the story Capricorn Rising, which will appear in the spring issue of the American Literary Review (http://www.engl.unt.edu/alr/Home.html). I am working on a collection of stories very loosely based on the lives of my parents (see above), Americans who lived in Israel from 1949 to 1958. I was born in Chadera, Israel, in 1957 and although I did not grow up there, the...
Twiggy and the Gang
My mother was not a regular reader of high end fashion magazines when I was girl in the 1960s, but my friend Diane’s mother—a cool, soignée blonde with an alluring French twist and a lily-of-the-valley infused cloud of Diorissimo hovering perpetually about her—was and whenever I visited, Diane and I would pore over their slick, bright pages together in a companionable reverie that needed no...
