Harriet Posnak Lesser, the queen of wordplay does it again. Enjoy! (I laughed out loud as I prepared this for publication. You will too!) – Melody Lesser ************************************************************************************** Medically Speaking by Harriet Posnak Lesser SCALPEL … The top of a baby’s head. HYPERVENTILATION … Turn down the air conditioner! DYSPEPSIA … Dat Coca Colia. ABDOMINAL […] Read more…
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Short Shrift By Harriet Posnak Lesser
Feeling discriminated against? Start a protest group. It’s the 2014 thing to do. Find somebody else in the same leaky boat, come up with an identifying adjective, add a hyphen with the word “American” after it — and you’re an instant lobby. So let’s hear it for Shorto-Americans, an undersung, underappreciated, underpublicized and under-about-eveything-else-you-can-think-of group. […] Read more…
Being Audrey Hepburn by Mitchell Kriegman, Review by Harriet Posnak Lesser
Mitchell Kriegman’s delightful novel had me with the first line, “It all started with that little black dress.” How well I remember the Givenchy LBD that Audrey Hepburn wore in the film Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Sleeveless, unembellished and body skimming, it defined women’s fashion for decades. I recall wearing my own Audrey-inspired little black dress to a party in […] Read more…