Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Anndee Hochman remembers her daughter’s childhood in a home that was open to others who needed it. But eventually, the little girl asks: who is that person on the street?
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:26PMTuesday, January 31, 2023
Anndee Hochman was never a dog person … until her daughter brought home a poodle puppy who got into the chocolate. How do we live and love when catastrophe is always waiting?
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:43PMTuesday, November 15, 2022
Philly author Isaac Blum’s debut YA novel, The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen, follows an Orthodox Jewish teen in a new town for a fully up-to-the minute story of conviction and contradic…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:57PMTuesday, November 1, 2022
A Girlhood: Letter to My Transgender Daughter, a tender, inquisitive, humble, and heartbreaking
new book about raising a trans kid, gets it right—in memoir and in parenting. Anndee
Hochman…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:15PMTuesday, October 25, 2022
Anndee Hochman had no problem getting help when her sense of smell or her sight suffered. But somehow, addressing her hearing loss felt different.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:40PMTuesday, August 16, 2022
After almost two years of sheltering at home, Anndee Hochman flew to Chile, and experienced a
very different response to the pandemic there. What made the difference, and why is it important…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:51PMTuesday, June 14, 2022
When Anndee Hochman’s parents moved to the Philly suburbs in 1965, it was a compromise. Almost 60 years later, the house holds a departed father’s heart. It’s time to say goodbye again.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:49PMThursday, June 2, 2022
Anndee Hochman is a parent. She remembers what a horrible day for schoolkids used to mean: sniffles, the dentist’s chair, lima beans for dinner. Today, she teaches fourth graders. The four…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:49PMTuesday, May 10, 2022
A new anthology by Philly writer Ann de Forest explores how we walk, and where, and
why that experience means such different things for different bodies. Anndee Hochman reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:35PMTuesday, May 3, 2022
We know how the story of Germantown High School ended, but how did it begin? A new book explains, and highlights the fault lines that remain in our schools today. Anndee Hochman reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:26PMMonday, April 11, 2022
Jim Bear, a hardworking advocate for the power of accessible local media, passed away in March. His G-Town radio colleagues speak with Anndee Hochman about his legacy.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:18PMWednesday, March 16, 2022
POOL: A Social History of Segregation, an exhibit at the Fairmount Water Works, opens this week after having been delayed by flooding from Hurricane Ida. Anndee Hochman previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:45AMMonday, February 14, 2022
Anndee Hochman’s Walk Around Philadelphia began as a refuge from the first year of the
pandemic, but as her route continued into 2022, she remembered that living in Philly is a lifetime of…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:29PMTuesday, January 25, 2022
Writer Anndee Hochman makes space for poetry at a New Jersey school of technology, where students prepare for a national contest, and appreciate the masks they’re tired of wearing.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:32PMWednesday, December 1, 2021
The new director of public art in the Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy wants more public art in the city to reflect more identities. Anndee Hochman profiles.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:34PMTuesday, November 30, 2021
Anndee Hochman considers her decades-long journey of finding what it means to play, integrating play into life, and the life lessons learned from a year of "fun" prompts from friends.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:32PMTuesday, October 19, 2021
For the 50th anniversary of its graphic arts collection, the Library Company looks beyond the images themselves to highlight what is missing—and why. Anndee Hochman reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:11PMMonday, August 23, 2021
A volunteer stint repairing a Germantown row house reprises Anndee Hochman’s teenage impulse to wield a hammer in lieu of words, and reminds her that all tools can both create and destroy.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:58PMTuesday, June 8, 2021
Over the course of almost 30 years, some things change and some don’t—and Anndee Hochman, from writing to bartending and back again, learns that personal reinventions don’t have to sha…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:08PMMonday, May 24, 2021
Poet Elaina Terranova has more in common with her father than she knew. ‘The Diamond Cutter’s Daughter’ explores power, fear, and longing in a Philadelphia Orthodox Jewish family. Annd…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:06PMFriday, April 9, 2021
It’s hard enough to navigate our identities IRL. What happens when we’re reduced to a Zoom box or other distanced communication? Anndee Hochman considers.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:53PMThursday, March 11, 2021
How have we weathered the last year? Let us count the ways. Births. Zooms. Funerals. The hugs we missed. Anndee Hochman is still realizing that anything can happen.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:58PMMonday, February 15, 2021
A new poetry collection from Hayden Saunier weaves Pennsylvania’s natural world with its mini-marts and hotels, exploring possibility, loss, compound perspectives, and calls to customer se…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:37PMTuesday, November 10, 2020
Plan and lead a family bat mitzvah in four days? Anndee Hochman is a writer, not a rabbi, but something about the COVID-19 pandemic made her say yes to her cousin's request.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:28PMTuesday, September 1, 2020
While braiding and baking the Friday challah, Anndee Hochman imagines her great-grandmother’s journey from Russia. What did she carry with her? Are those things alive today?
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:28PMMonday, July 27, 2020
Before a virus turned the world upside down, Anndee Hochman was a familiar figure to her neighbors, walking Germantown Avenue. What has changed? What is perennial, even in a pandemic?
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:41PMMonday, May 25, 2020
Stephen King wrote ‘The Stand’ and Camus wrote ‘The Plague.’ They’re not the first or the last to mine rampant sickness for human meaning. Anndee Hochman wonders how our storytelle…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:53PMTuesday, May 5, 2020
What were you doing in mid-March, when the realization that this pandemic was going to derail the world hit you? Was it like other moments before disaster struck? Anndee Hochman considers.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:20PMTuesday, March 17, 2020
“We’re not closing,” a local K-5 principal told teaching writer-in-residence Anndee Hochman. But things changed more quickly than anyone could believe.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:25PMFriday, December 27, 2019
News of a fatal stabbing in Morningside Park rocked Anndee Hochman’s family—her own daughter is a classmate of the victim. How do parents and their children cope with the nightmare of vi…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:37PMTuesday, November 13, 2018
Theater of Witness filmed a performance of their testimonial performance work 'Walk in My Shoes,' and the exploration of racism and violence proved a revelation. Anndee Hochman reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:55AM 
