My Mom decided that having a kiddy tea party would be fun.
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Suprise Me
A Memorable Birthday
Prompted By Anniversaries
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My Mom decided that having a kiddy tea party would be fun.
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Bike Race Coverage – the Dark Ages
Prompted By That Was Then, This Is Now
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Back in my day, bicycles had two wheels, no chain, no pedals, no brakes and, dammit, I was happy to have one…. Oh wait, that’s not true … But media coverage of pro cycling was just as primitive as that first push-bicycle, known as a “dandy horse,” back in the 19th century. Back before the…
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Good Morning, Mrs. Shaffer
Prompted By Favorite Teacher
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It takes a long time to learn gratitude. When I look back and recall some of my schoolteachers, I’m sorry I never took the time to thank them — to let them know their hard work made a positive impact that still reverberates in my life. I wish, sometime before she died, I had located…
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Hat’s Off to Garth!
Prompted By Hats
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As this prompt was actually my husband’s idea, I thought I’d give him credit where credit’s due. He happens to have quite a hat collection himself — at least fifteen (not including caps). The featured photo, taken by him, is one of them. I do love a man in a hat.
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Is It Safe
Prompted By The Dentist
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The movie Marathon Man was released in 1976 and Laurence Olivier played the part of Szell a former WWII Nazi German enroute to New York City from South America to recover some stolen and previously hidden diamonds. Dustin Hoffman plays the part of Thomas Babington brother to a US secret agent and who unwittingly gets…
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No Shrinking Violet
Prompted By Nudity
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Charlie leered at me, “Hey doll, did you pop out tonight?” Charlie was Charles Werner Moore, a much-respected director, actor, and acting teaching at Brandeis (though I wouldn’t take a course with him until the following year) and director of the first Main Stage show my freshman year at Brandeis. He never learned young womens’…
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I Protest!
Prompted By Protests
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I'll let their stories speak for themselves, and for me.
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New Leaf
Prompted By Anniversaries
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New Leaf Over the years we’ve thrown some big milestone parties – for my husband Danny’s 30th birthday, our 25th anniversary, Danny’s 60th at Yankee Stadium, two big housewarmings, my retirement, my 70th, and of course our son Noah’s bar mitzvah. (See Ghostwriting in the Family) Then a few years ago on a glorious…
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Soul Sister
Prompted By Is Where I’m From Who I Am?
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I used to joke that I had motor oil running through my veins. Thanks to my great uncle: Uncle Meyer, as I’ve written about before, most of the Sarasons came north from St. Louis to Detroit to work for GM (my father worked in Flint for the Chevrolet Division starting in 1937, but after WWII, did…
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