THE YOUNG FRIENDS PLEASURE AND BENEFIT SOCIETY

by | Mar 22, 2025 | Blog

Join me for Episode 10 of my podcast MAYBE IT’S ME ….Come with me as I hunt for my grandparents’ graves in the wilds of Queens, NY … and discover how close my grandmother might have come to being one of those young seamstresses who died in the...

RIGHTEOUS GENTILE

by | Mar 7, 2025 | Blog

Episode 8 of my podcast MAYBE IT’S ME is live! What happens when you fall in love with someone whose countrymen your family views as enemies? What if that person wants you to visit his homeland, which your ancestors fled to get away from his ancestors? Bad...

I TRIED TO RAISE A JEW AND HE TURNED OUT A COMMUNIST

by | Feb 21, 2025 | Blog

What do you do if your kid doesn’t want to follow the religion that means so much to you? What determines what kind of person your offspring grow up to be–who they are at birth or how you try to raise them? Tune in for Episode 8 of MAYBE IT’S ME and...

HOUSE OF THE WORLD

by | Feb 10, 2025 | Blog

Episode 7 of MAYBE IT’S ME is out! (Sorry for the delay … I somehow forgot to upload the actual recording of the episode!) How did a Jewish cemetery end up inside a General Motors Cadillac plant? Why did the city seize the Detroit neighborhood that once...

A FRIENDLY BOOK OF FACTS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

by | Jan 24, 2025 | Blog

Terrible times, but maybe you need a laugh? Ep 6 of my podcast MAYBE IT’S ME is just out. This one is about a truly horrifying sex-ed book that has been chasing me around and trying to bite me for decades. Back in the 1950s and ’60s, parents sure did a...

RANCH HOUSE

by | Jan 10, 2025 | Blog

My parents were obsessive about keeping our 1950s ranch house spotlessly clean, well repaired, and orderly. They seemed to be afraid of everything. But why? Sadly, we often don’t figure out the reasons for our parents’ craziness until they’re no...