by Marguerite Elisofon | Dec 25, 2015 | Uncategorized
Dreaming of a white Christmas? Go back to sleep! If you live in New York—or anywhere on the East Coast—you’ve probably noticed the record-breaking high temperatures this holiday season. Forget about roasting chestnuts, sipping hot chocolate and cozying up to a...
by Marguerite Elisofon | Dec 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
Now that my kids are grown, I’m no longer caught up in the holiday frenzy of finding eight perfect gifts for Max and Sarah or lighting the menorah with them. In retrospect, the image of Sarah squabbling with her brother over who would light each candle, or her...
by Marguerite Elisofon | Dec 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
In a world where the number of babies born on the autistic spectrum has more than tripled from 1 in 150—when my daughter Sarah was born in 1990—to 1 in 45 in 2015, is there any GOOD news on the disabilities horizon? Ever since my daughter (25 this month) graduated...
by Marguerite Elisofon | Dec 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
Whatever happened to “live and let live?” Apparently, ISIS, Al Qaeda and an increasing number of assorted crazy religious fanatics are violently opposed to tolerating people who live and worship differently. Sadly, the peace, love and brotherhood movement—near and...