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Good Manners by
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Prompted By Thank You

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I am a relic of a by-gone era. I believe handwritten thank you notes should still be written in response to gifts (except from immediate family members, when a verbal thank you will suffice). As you see, I still have monogrammed stationery (the Featured photo) for writing such notes (as well as condolence notes). It…
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The Graduate by
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Prompted By Graduation

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I had hair; my grandfather didn't. So it was only fair to let him wear the mortarboard.
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A Tale of Two Hitchhikes by
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Prompted By Hitchhiking

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I confess to hitchhiking once. I don’t think my parents ever knew.
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Odessa by
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Prompted By Ceremony

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Odessa When I was growing up my parents had a housekeeper named Odessa.   She was a tall and stately-looking Black woman,  and I adored her. In the mornings before my mother left for work Odessa arrived,  made sure I finished my breakfast,  and walked me the few blocks to school.  And at 3:00 she’d be…
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The Parents Group by
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Prompted By Community

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The Parents Group When our son was born in New York Hospital I was asked if we’d like to attend The First Year of Life,  a series of quarterly lectures by Lee Salk,  the renown child psychologist.  Of course we signed up and over the following year we attended four wonderful lectures held in a…
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Moments of Glory by
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Prompted By Valentine's Day

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I am an inveterate romantic. Dan teases that I weep at Hallmark commercials. He’s not wrong. I am sentimental. I save everything. I have a dried sprig of flowers from my wedding bouquet, pressed into my Bride’s Book. I have a long memory, for good and bad. Dan can make grand gestures when he chooses…
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What My Father’s Belt Told Me by (2 Stories)

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When I was about 10 years old a friend, Dougie, the neighborhood troublemaker, dared me to smoke a cigarette.
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There’s more than one way to break eggs by
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Prompted By Prison

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He must have noticed that the word “kidnapping” shocked us. He took the time to give us the word-for-word definition from the California Criminal Code: “Moving another person a substantial distance, without the person's consent, by means of force or fear.”
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Making Peace With Mother by
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Prompted By Final Farewell

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Mother died three days before her 97th birthday. I described my relationship with her, and her last six days of life in much detail in What I Didn’t Tell You Then. I knew the people at the funeral home in Detroit quite well. The owner, Herb Kaufman, lived around the corner from us in Huntington Woods.…
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Not So Beautiful, But Oh So Tasty by
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Prompted By The Garden

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Calling it a garden gives it (or me) far more credit than is due. Rather, we have a few spots bordering a swimming pool where my lazy inner farmer takes over.  When we moved into the house in 1992, the eastern edge of the back yard had overgrown rose bushes that hadn’t been pruned for…
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