You can still order STORIED STUFF, the first paperback collection of Storied Stuff essays and pix. All proceeds go to assist not for profits. Volume 2 is scheduled for October publication. Stay tuned. Congrats to the winners of our Second Annual Writing Contest. First place: Gabi Coatsworth. Runners-up: Judy Iacuzzi, Lisa D’Angelo, and Gabrielle Gresge.

Alan Rosen 6/10/20 Alan Rosen 6/10/20

Alan Rosen

This simple cup, saucer and plate matching set is quite ordinary…

Alan Steinberg 6/8/20 Alan Steinberg 6/8/20

Alan Steinberg

April 1961, Far Rockaway High School baseball field, Queens, NY...

Jean Diamond 6/8/20 Jean Diamond 6/8/20

Jean Diamond

He hasn’t seen the light of day for years...

Peggy Wagner Kimble 6/5/20 Peggy Wagner Kimble 6/5/20

Peggy Wagner Kimble

Do you know what you did every day in 1958?…

Junior Burke 6/5/20 Junior Burke 6/5/20

Junior Burke

At nineteen, I, who did not read music...

Whitney Otto 6/3/20 Whitney Otto 6/3/20

Whitney Otto

The Reina Victoria Hotel in Madrid sits at one end of the Plaza del Angels…

Robert Wallace 6/3/20 Robert Wallace 6/3/20

Robert Wallace

She was my favorite Aunt...

Sally deVincentis 6/1/20 Sally deVincentis 6/1/20

Sally deVincentis

The yellow house I grew up in had a cellar…

Jack Hertz 6/1/20 Jack Hertz 6/1/20

Jack Hertz

I was at Forbes Field, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates, on October 13, 1960...

Fred Karger 5/29/20 Fred Karger 5/29/20

Fred Karger

When I was growing up in Glencoe, a bedroom suburb north of Chicago, I didn’t quite fit in….

Esther Weiss 5/29/20 Esther Weiss 5/29/20

Esther Weiss

Her hair, on weekends, was tidy…

Pamela Wilsey 5/27/20 Pamela Wilsey 5/27/20

Pamela Wilsey

As a child I rejected dolls, refused to read any books with human characters…

Robert Jordan 5/27/20 Robert Jordan 5/27/20

Robert Jordan

My father started his career in the 1930s, working in the oil fields in Maracaibo…

Arnie Kanter 5/25/20 Arnie Kanter 5/25/20

Arnie Kanter

The inside cover of my red, leatherette autograph book reads…

Joyce Newcomb 5/25/20 Joyce Newcomb 5/25/20

Joyce Newcomb

When I was a child, the sky-blue teapot sat on the counter beside the stove…

Dr. C.T. Vivian 5/22/20 Dr. C.T. Vivian 5/22/20

Dr. C.T. Vivian

If you want to begin to understand me, my family, my people…

Anita Weinberg 5/22/20 Anita Weinberg 5/22/20

Anita Weinberg

It begins over 60 years ago…

Aubrey Milunsky 5/20/20 Aubrey Milunsky 5/20/20

Aubrey Milunsky

On an unlikely street, Cinderella, in a less likely town…

Suzanne Tague 5/20/20 Suzanne Tague 5/20/20

Suzanne Tague

My parents rarely bought hardbound books…