when he was nine and | was six, we performed at Carnegie Hall. (| was the youngest concert artist in any field to perform there.) Our younger sister Marge took piano lessons and became a legendary figure at Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn, teaching music and running the chorus. Now retired, she a

but instead of using the Life in Hell® characters, he created an entirely new cast: The Simpsons, which bear the names of his family members, Homer, Marge, Lisa and Maggie (Bart is an anagram for brat). The Simpsons were soon spun off into a half-hour animated series which first aired on December 17, 19

!” imitating the intonation and exasperation of my mother trying to get my father’s attention. I asked what my father called my mother, and she said “Marge!” in the tone of an authorita- tive military call. Hana talked to her grandparents on the phone quite a bit. One day I noticed her walking in furiou