Who am I?

I am a momspy, artspy and nonprofit knitter.

Hi! here you will find style notes for people who change the world.

I come from a family of gamblers, poets, concubines and obsessive knitters where I am known as “Number One Daughter married to a Nice Jewish Boy from Rockaway Beach”. Got three great kids, a big old beach house and sand everywhere all year long. Lots of stories.

In 2000, I became the Executive Director of the Queens Council on the Arts and as time went by, the mission to support artists in making life beautiful for all of us grew to be my passion and joyful purpose in life. I love artists and how they transform our world with the arts.

At times, life is more like a sitcom but that’s OK. A life that isn’t filled with exuberant passion… who needs that?

I am also a children’s book author/artist. In 1994, my children’s picture book, Rabbit Mooncakes was published. In 2007, I was commissioned to create Howl!, an original retelling of the American tall tale of Pecos Bill. I began writing this blog in August 2009 and discovered it was an exercise in joy and discipline to write you little stories with pictures about the things I find fascinating in New York City. Ah, the romance between text and image.