CALM ELM – Middle Initial Crisis Question

After a very long hiatus and only spurred to action because my brother decided to switch hosting companies, I have logged back into this site and lkd at it and felt both inspirational and defeat….

Baggage…Or not.

I have been carrying around the New York City Ballet’s brochure for their 2017/2018 season for weeks now. The edges of the pages have become purse-worn. The cover page has come out of the stapled…

Thank you Ian Frazier!

Once upon a time (a time, btw, before I worked at an investment bank), I fell in love with Ian Frazier. Not physically in the sort of way that I would fall in love with a…

Empathizing with the American Soldier: A Conversation with Doug Taurel

by Erica L Moffett (first published at www.womanaroundtown.com on 9/7/16).  Douglas Taurel has never served in the military but he possesses deep empathy for the soldier and the families of the soldiers. It is not…

Saturday Night at Crave Fishbar

Saturday evening at Crave Fishbar. Every writer (I like to think anyway) needs a bar to write in. A friendly, neighborhood bar that is not too loud or crowded. Where you know the staff and…

Summer Sporting Season Is Here!

It is late June. The summer solstice has come and gone this wk and we are in the thick of summer sports: the NHL finals finished up early in June; the NBA finals concluded last…

Encounters with the Jellyfish

The most recent one was in St. Lucia, in late February 2015. I was in the cove between between the two volcanic Pitons, those two pointed green mountains that adorn every tourist brochure for the…

In Remembrance of Uncle Sam and His Great Escape From the Chinese Communists

On Thursday, March 12, the Moffett family will gather at Nassau Presbyterian Church in Princeton, New Jersey to attend a memorial service for Samuel Hugh Moffett. He was my father’s uncle. My great-uncle. He was…

12.15.12 – Consumed by Sandy Hook

Sandy Hook Elementary School is all the news. It is the rage. It is the topic du jour. It raises so many questions. And many of them not good.  

New Hampshire Fall Weekend

Copper, gold, and rust tones, muted by the mists and steady rains throughout the wkend. There was a chill in the air, but this was, after all, New Hampshire the last weekend in September. I…