Vexatious Security
I had just gotten back to sleep after my usual late night walk-about when my cell phone rang. My left armed flailed to the bedside table and, half awake, I’m thinking it’s awfully late […]
Author: Kathryn Taylor
Kathy Taylor has had essays published in the Philadelphia Inquirer, WHYY’s website, the Broad Street Review, Purple Clover and the Princeton Alumni Weekly. Recently retired as a director for Alumni Affairs & Communications at Princeton, she has lived in the Philadelphia area since 1974. She and her husband have two grown children. Her children and husband, and sometimes her cats, make regular appearances in her essays..
H is for H’burg…and Hollywood
I recently read that Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. Yes, that Gertrude Stein. Poet of Paris salon fame, hostess to Hemingway and Fitzgerald, author of The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook beloved by beatniks […]
A Horse Is a Horse
“My kingdom for a horse!” cried Richard III. I had no kingdom, but when I was a young girl I certainly cried a lot for a horse. Cried. Coaxed. Cajoled. I begged Santa for a […]
The True Measure of Time…
Nothing forces upon me more acutely the awareness of the swift passage of time, the fleet pace of days and weeks as they fly off the calendar as though in a 1940’s newsreel, than cleaning […]
It Can’t Be Labor Day… I Have to Go Swimming!
During the summer, my husband Jon and I go to our local swim club on Sunday mornings to do some laps. We aim for 10:30, when the gates open. That guarantees we won’t have to […]