Fiction Writer, Poet, Playwright, Educator, Memoir Writer and Literary Critic
Novelist Gloria Goldreich reviewed Janet Ruth Heller’s middle-grade chapter book The Passover Surprise in Hadassah Magazine in December 2016 (page 69). Here is the review. In Janet Ruth Heller’s The Passover Surprise (illustrated by Ronald Kauffman; Fictive Press, 48 pp….
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Key to the City (1950) is a black-and-white film that stars Clark Gable (Steve Fisk) and Loretta Young (Clarissa Standish) as small-town mayors who meet and fall in love while attending a convention of mayors in San Francisco. The director…
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Recently, I was talking with my three-year-old great-nephew Wesley. Like many toddlers, he often uses the word “No!” As I spoke with him, I realized that he may use “No!” to mean something different than adults do when they use…
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