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Early Thanksgiving
Early Thanksgiving This past November as I was preparing for Thanksgiving I thought about how we celebrated the holiday [...]
A Sucker for Cinderella
When I saw the original classic Disney cartoon (1950) of Cinderella as a child, I totally bought into her song of "A Dream Is [...]
Klondike Day
We could get credit for the golden boulder—if we could somehow transport it to the assayer’s office without getting robbed.
Grace
We did not relish listening to praise and platitudes about a woman who was, to put it charitably, hard to get along with.
A Demon Seed?
The schout whereupon demanded that the defendant "shall be punished as a tumultuous and seditious person . . . "
A Real-World Education
In the fall of 1976, I lied on an application in order to get a job as a janitor at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Les Halles
Les Halles I went to Europe for the first time in the late 1960s with my husband Alan on a belated honeymoon. We spent a few [...]
A different form of binge-watching
The equipment I am using...is not a traditional stationary bike: not even one of those souped-up Peloton bikes that are so [...]
Too Many Pills
I have strived to be healthy, but life had other plans, beginning with severe migraines decades ago. A brilliant neurologist [...]
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