Having never written a traditional book for a musical before Sunday — and having seen few musicals — working with Sondheim became my education.

Aboard the ferry in a winter of advancing age.

A Thanksgiving poem.

Forty five years ago, I received a telephone call from Anna Maxim, saying that a drunk man had crashed his car through her stone wall and was I willing to come and put the wall back together.

Over 2,100 years ago, King Antiochus promulgated laws that made Jewish ritual and worship illegal.

I went for my mother’s 87th birthday but stayed for the storm.