Helen Mandlin
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Dancing in the Dark
From Greenwich Village &Upper West Side about jealousy, marriage, performance, Relationships, romance, singer, singing, theater, whirlwind romancePublished on: 10/13/2014
A native New Yorker, graduate of the HIgh School of Performing Arts.
A singer/dancer/actress I wound up teaching kindergarten in Chelsea and Greenwich Village. Eventually I became a psychoanalyst. I retired in 2013 after 25 years in private practice. Along the way I continued singing, wriiting my own cabaret act. I have one son who lives in DC. I've been an upper west sider since 1974. I am currently writing a memoir, entitled
Death, Divorce & Real Estate: An Upper West Side Story.
My Covid-19 project has been to drive to one of the many Staten Island parks that I haven’t previously visited and walk around, usually alone, and take pictures on my phone. I try not to think about the future too much. A few months ago, I drove to Graniteville Quarry Park—not to be confused with […]
It’s the swinging 70’s. Everyone I know has tons of sexual partners. I am 28 and only lost my virginity two years ago to a farm boy I met at The Guthrie Theater. The romance continues for a while when I get back to New York, but then, he writes me a Dear John letter. […]
Blanche, my mother, was past thirty, an old maid by the standards of the mid-twentieth century. She finally picked herself up and hauled herself off to a lefty resort in the Catskills, the kind of place where people were more likely to play Twenty Questions than tennis. There she met my father, Harold, who was […]
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