A snaky escape from forbidden sites in old Taipei.
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Suprise Me
Escape from Pimps
Prompted By Timing is Everything
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A snaky escape from forbidden sites in old Taipei.
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He Was the Egg Man
Prompted By Grandparents & Grandchildren
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He bought us ice cream and pretended to scold us when we stuck out our tongues to lick our cones. When we sat next to him with food on our plates, he'd look surprised and point at something behind us. We'd turn around to look, and he'd have taken a bite of our sandwich. His big blue eyes gave nothing away--he was innocent!
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Ghosts of Fallen Towers
Prompted By 9/11 Twenty Years Later
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How do you remember what you never forgot?
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What’s Today’s Weather?
Prompted By Weather
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What’s today’s weather? We really need to pay close attention.
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Our Noisy Nanny
Prompted By Nannies and Babysitters
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Our Noisy Nanny When my maternity leave came to an end and I was ready to go back to my teaching job, we knew we needed a nanny for our toddler. Mary R had cleaned house for us weekly for years and we asked if she could care for Noah while I was at school.…
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This Little Light of Mine
Prompted By Traditions
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Chanukah has always been my favorite holiday. Not because of the gifts — my parents actually gave us our gifts on Dec. 25th when the rest of our friends were getting theirs — but because I loved lighting the candles, singing the traditional songs, playing dreidel, and eating Chanukah gelt (chocolate circles wrapped in gold…
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The Lady with the Torch
Prompted By My Hometown
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The Lady with the Torch Like many New Yorkers I’m sure, I don’t take in the local sights unless out-of-towners are in town! So when friends from China were visiting recently we decided to take them to the Statue of Liberty where I probably hadn’t been since I was a school kid. Tickets to…
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Memento Mori
Prompted By Senior Moments
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It’s easy to laugh about senior moments when your parents lived long lives with their faculties intact. Not so easy for my friend whose mother and uncles all developed Alzheimer’s.
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The End of the World
Prompted By 9/11
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Looking back at August-September 2001 brings to mind the opening of A Tale of Two Cities, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” The two weeks prior to what we now just refer to as 9/11 contained some of the best times of my life, and then, of course, the…
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