“Never let a dream get away. What have you always wanted to do but never gotten around to?” She watched him watching her react. Everything about the man annoyed her, from his long gray pony tail to his bare feet in Gucci loafers. The aging artist’s hippy veneer was inappropriate for someone his age and obvious… Continue Reading
Author Archives: Sidney Stark
Never Trouble Trouble…
Recently I read an article in the NY times by H. Gilbert Welch, a professor of medicine at the Dartmouth Institute for health, entitled If You Feel O.K., Maybe You Are O.K. The basic premise was that the once popular movement for early medical diagnosis may be waning in its acceptance, and for good reason.… Continue Reading
Mistaken Identities- Chapter Two
Chapter 1: On a December evening, Leighton DeWitt, real estate broker and marketing director of a New York firm, finishes work after hours in her empty office. Jason Law, popular aging star of British television, stumbles in mistakenly assuming the real estate office is connected to the auction house. Eventually recognizing the actor, Leighton is… Continue Reading
Mistaken Identities
Chapter One Leighton dreaded this time of day; the low point between winding down her job at the office and preparing for an evening at home with her husband. Here, she moved in her own world. There, it was his planet. She found it hard to shift roles from her professional to her personal life.… Continue Reading
Shifting Gears
The New York Society Library, affectionately known as ‘the writers library’ because of its impressive roster of accomplished author/members, has a wonderfully supportive assistant head librarian in Carolyn Waters, who makes us all feel appreciated and cherished with her Writing Life series of lectures. Bending over backwards to supply us with the tools we need… Continue Reading
For Whom We Write
When I graduated from college the first time with an Associates degree there was no such thing as a Department of Continuing Education. I had an awareness of and affinity for lifelong learning as I reached for my diploma on that sunny June day; but my first matriculation was so long ago that academia hadn’t… Continue Reading