The ad for my short story “The Glass Door,” updated to include the story’s selection for “Together apART: Creating During COVID,” at ArtsWestchester in White Plains, New York, May 7 through Aug. 1. Ad courtesy of WAG magazine. — The ad for my short story “The Glass Door,” updated to include the story’s selection for “Together apART: Creating During COVID,” at ArtsWestchester in White Plains, New York, May 7 through Aug. 1. *Ad courtesy of WAG magazine.*

More adventures in publishing -- Covid through the prism of culture

May 7, 2021

The worlds of art and literature, while complementary and collaborative, are really quite different. That point was driven home to me as I took in a preview of ArtsWestchester’s exhibit “Together apART: Creating During COVID,” which opens Friday, May 7,, and runs through Aug. 1 at ArtsW’s Arts Exchange headquarters in White Plains., New York. It’s a provocative show, which I expected given the subject matter and other exhibits I’ve covered there. What I didn’t expect was how beautiful it is.

A not so distant mirror of challenging times

July 30, 2020

Challenging times call for creative measures – and so it is that newspapers, purveyors of factual truth, have joined forces with fiction writers, purveyors of psychological truth, in the hope of expanding their readership and providing that readership with an escape from the grim news of the day.

On Sunday, July 12, The New York Times devoted its entire magazine to fiction. And the Boston Globe recently serialized Ben Mezrich’s “The Mechanic,” a novella, the Globe said, “with a strong Boston accent.”

I’m delighted that Dee DelBello — publisher of the Westchester and Fairfield County Business Journals and of WAG magazine, which I edit — has decided to serialize my latest novel, “Seamless Sky,” published in January by JMS Books, in the business journals next week and in WAG in September.

Kudos... to me

April 6, 2018

I’m pleased to announce that I have been selected for a 2018 Folio: Top Women in Media award in the Motivators category. . (Folio is an online magazine about, well, online and print magazines.)

I’ll be at the June 7 awards luncheon at the Edison Ballroom in Manhattan, representing WAG magazine as editor in chief, and joining in a toast to 2018 Lifetime Empowerment & Achievement Award recipient Martha Stewart, WAG’s July 2014 cover subject. ...

Thoughts on Stephen Hawking

March 14, 2018

The word “intellectual” has become a dirty one in our culture, and scientists, artists and academics suspect. But there is no greatness in this world without great thinking.

Stephen Hawking – the transcendent English theoretical physicist, cosmologist and mathematician, who died Wednesday, March 14 at age 76 after battling motor neuron disease his entire adult life – had, of course, a great mind, one that bridged Einstein and quantum theory...

Farewell (for now) to PyeongChang

February 26, 2018

Experts will tell you that the high-pressured setting of the Olympics’ global stage is like no other. It can make the favorites fall and rise again and the dark horses surge to the front of the finish line.

That was certainly the case of the magical two weeks in PyeongChang, whose motto might’ve been “Expect the unexpected.”

It was a time when America lost its record for most medals in the Winter Games (37, Vancouver) to Norway (brilliant with 39) while setting a new record for medaling in the greatest number of different events (11). So what Team USA sometimes lacked in depth, particularly in the glamour sports of alpine skiing and figure skating, it made up for in breadth ...