Jim Leff's Slog

Andrew Tobias recommends  holding on to PRKR shares…but with bridled enthusiasm (you can never predict a judge’s behavior). I’ll take the lo...

So this was some deep Joseph Campbell collective unconsciousness shit. Age 6: Some sort of baby leaps up onto its bed to greet the new ...

Alternate framings re: seasonal change. Fourth grade. I wasn't just pointing out the obvious - that one can frame in different ways...

Not sure it comes thru in the photo, but I find this elementary school Halloween painting legit terrifying:

Here's my first professional restaurant review, from March 1992 in NY Press. I improved after this, fortunately!

I've been going thru some of my older work, and found my very first restaurant review. This was my contrib as a third-grader to my ele...

I did a brief Dallas trip a couple weeks ago (every winter American Airlines drops roundtrip NY-DFW fares under $100 and I grab one, per str...

I'm a longtime fan of a little-known cooking writer. Story Cooking is written by Ellie Markovitch, a Brazilian-American mom who reminds...

Couldn’t be bothered even to center-align. Hey, they got this!

I've gone several years without getting a cold. There's nothing like countermeasures for a global pandemic to blast minor perils of...