Author: Phyllis Van Slyck

Phyllis van Slyck teaches English at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York. She has published essays on Henry James and on pedagogy in a variety of academic journals including American Imago, Change Magazine, Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts, The Henry James Review and Profession.  She is currently writing memoir pieces on family matters, in particular, a series on living with a partner with Parkinson’s Disease. 
There Was No French Toast

There Was No French Toast

“Tell me what we were doing the morning we were leaving Cancun,” my husband asks, a week after we returned from a vacation. “We were waiting in the hotel bar for the van to take us to the airport,” I reply. “Did we order French toast?” “What? -- There was no ... Read More
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