Art and I have been married for nearly 34 years, and at this point, I don’t think either one of us could imagine being without the other. It took me a long time to “get it right”, but every moment of heartache along the way was worth it . . . Trust me. On the … Read more
When I was younger, I lived for about a year in New Mexico – for a few months playing at the La Fonda hotel – a very old establishment in the heart of Santa Fe. I loved the experience – being in the high desert, surrounded by the Sangre de Cristo mountains, steeped in the … Read more
I wasn’t afraid of flying as a child. I can remember our family flying from Pittsburgh to New York City when I was no more than eight years old, and that was back in the days when stewardesses (not “flight attendants”) wore little hats and gave out tiny pairs of wings to the kids for their … Read more
As near as I can tell, I was conceived about the same time as television – well, maybe born about the same time as television. I guess you could say television was conceived a long time ago. Both television and I were introduced, anyway, about the middle of the twentieth century. I was most certainly … Read more
Growing up a small, pale, Jewish girl in Pittsburgh in the 50s, I was the odd one. For one thing, I had very curly, frizzy hair. No matter how hard I tried to tame it with barrettes, bobby pins, rubber bands, and goop, the bangs still flipped up, the curls went in every direction, and … Read more
Music runs in my family. My father, who had written songs during World War II as a POW in Germany, had dismissed the notion of being a professional songwriter after the war as a crazy, impractical idea. He opted instead to partner with his brothers in a home improvement business in order to provide for … Read more