by Roberta Hershenson | Jun 10, 2022 | articles
From my article in NYCitywoman “Overturning Roe v. Wade would have far-reaching consequences, not only for women, but for everyone. Those of us who came of age before the 1973 Supreme Court decision—as I did—can testify first-hand and vividly to the harmful...
by Roberta Hershenson | Jun 5, 2022 | articles
From my article in NYCitywoman, 1/7/2022 “Our eyes are a wonder, a source of poetry. But inside our bodies, they are literal, not metaphorical. They weep and itch, redden and swell; they weaken with age. Our lifelong instinct, our duty, is to protect them—and we...
by Roberta Hershenson | Jun 1, 2022 | articles
From my article in NYCityWoman: “As I watched the assorted footage presented in the Jewish Museum’s exhibit Jonas Mekas: The Camera Was Always Running, I often found myself on the brink of tears. You don’t see many films like Mekas’s these days—“diary” films as...
by Roberta Hershenson | Nov 28, 2021 | Thoughts
I took a shadow selfie with a medium-sized street tree on a recent September morning. It was a nice tree at the corner of Park Avenue and East 37th Street whose shadow branches seemed to embrace me. Six weeks later it was gone, replaced by a metal plate. Street trees...
by Roberta Hershenson | Oct 18, 2021 | Thoughts
The thing about New York—and maybe cities everywhere—is the light. The natural kind, where one minute a building is cold and grey and the next it’s a shining beacon. This happens mostly at sundown, when the light is pink, then magenta, and a unique show gets under...
