Paintings

Amazed, 1966

Ben is 1 1/2 and

enthralled by the

fish. We let the kids

stay home from

school when the

guppies were having

their babies

North Carolina, 1978

My first date with Peter.

We were going to a party.

My son Hill was at the

party, too and his

girlfriend’s mother said:

“No wonder Hill is so

screwed up, just look at

his mother.” I guess I just

hate the South.

Ama

My Brother's Bar Mitzvah

For the whole year before, Dan had had to memorize the Hebrew chants from records.  I can still remember some of it now. I was 11 but dressed up like I was 6. My father got a promotion and we moved to a new house.  We were all miserable.

The Miss Marlos

School of Dance, 1945

I was crazy about ballet,

everything about it: the

tutu with the bonnet, the

recital the orange crate

covered with paper.

I was really short, as

everyone pointed out to

me, but in ballet I felt like I

shone!

I am with my Aunt Mary and my Uncle Lionel. My aunt Mary loved me a lot and my mother kept saying it was such a shame she wasn’t married.

Everyone told me I looked just like Mary, so that’s probably why I got married 3 times. When she died she left me $30,000. My Uncle Lionel married Aunt Bernice, a horror, and died 5 years later of a heart attack.

My Fourth Birthday Party

Oil on Linen

15 x 20

My Fourth Birthday Party: 1943

I loved my dress.

I was allowed to invite four kids, one of them being my brother Danny. No balloons, no crepe paper, no party baskets, but how about that cake!