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The Living Lost by
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Prompted By Ex-Friends

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Some lost souls just don’t want to be found. For them, the span of their lives is judged not by the calendar nor the actuarial tables that insurance companies live and die by, nor by the average life spans computed by the American Heart Association. All of these objective measures of how long people may…
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Impeachment Then and Now by
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Prompted By Watergate

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The current impeachment discussion takes me back to 1972 and Richard Nixon.
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The Amazing Technicolor Club Chair and Ottoman by
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The Amazing Technicolor Club Chair and Ottoman I’m not a fashionista,  nor a whiz in the kitchen,  nor good with make-up like some gals  –  I’m a wannabe interior decorator and I love thinking about color schemes,  and window treatments and wallpaper,  and rugs and lamps.  And I actually collect pitchers and bowls.  (See Pitcher…
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I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You by
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I wasn't going to write, because I thought you had it pretty well together, and you wouldn't listen to my advice anyway.
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You Light Up My Life by
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Prompted By Hair

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When we first think of hair, we assume the reference is to that which is on our head but in reality that’s not always the case. It was about 1971 and I had just asked a beautiful Stanford student out on a date. To tell the truth, I never thought in a million years she would…
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I Took a Ride in a B-24 by (2 Stories)

Prompted By Father's Day

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My father enlisted in the Army Air Corps on December 7, 1942, four months and thirteen days before his nineteenth birthday. He was a radio operator assigned to the 455th Bomb Group of the Fifteenth Air Force. His plane was a B-24.
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A Glass Menagerie from the Five and Dime by
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A Glass Menagerie from The Five and Dime When I was a kid there were two stores In my Bronx neighborhood we called the “five-and-dimes”.  One was Woolworth which of course was a national chain,  and the other was Fishers which I think was just a local store.  Yet to my child’s sensibility they were…
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Living in the Historic District by
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We are fortunate to own a historic home in the village of Edgartown on Martha’s Vineyard. Holmes Coffin House. It has a plaque above the door and for many years, was down the block from the Martha’s Vineyard Museum, which has since moved to a large campus in Vineyard Haven, but the street retains the “Cooke…
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Liver & Onions by
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Prompted By What We Ate

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My father appreciated every meal my mother prepared for him as if it were the best meal he'd ever eaten.
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Grandma’s Fan by
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Belle Potocsky Beckenstein was married in Bialystock, Lithuania (part of Imperial Russia) in 1902. She was quite lovely, though I have no photos of her from that exact date. I do have the fan she carried at her wedding. She brought it with her when she, my grandfather Samuel and their two small children fled…
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