March 2009
4 posts
Bonnie Hunt Show!
Alida Brill was on the Bonnie Hunt Show recently. Click here to see her interview.
A CRAZY GIRL
I was 12 or perhaps 13 the first time I heard a doctor suggest that perhaps there was something else wrong with me. — Something other than illness. — Maybe I was a Crazy Girl. It was said in different words but it was said in front of me. “You know it might all be in her head.” I was too bright not to know what this meant. My mother had old-world ways and with remedies in her...
'Tis the season to be...
Reflective, I suppose.
The Chanukah/Christmas/New Year cycle is hard for many of us and particularly sad for me. I’m far too old to believe in Santa Claus, and finally too wise to hope a package will arrive with the ultimate Magic Wand to cure my illness.
So what is left for me to revel in about my life as I light the first candle of Chanukah at sundown tonight with Christmas also knocking on...