Today's Stories from the Retrospect Archive
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Callie Hollingshead’s Door Prize Quilt and It’s Fate
A church door prize quilt from the 1950s gets a new life in the 1990s.
Stranger Danger
In 1979, six-year-old Etan Patz disappeared on his way to his school bus stop in Lower Manhattan.
Still Life with Grape and Hotdog
I glance up from the piano and listen to his James Taylor-inspired voice sing the lyric we have crafted and feel dizzy with [...]
Foiled by Finkel and Foyle
I knew I'd crossed a threshold when I drew my first real blank on a name.
Why I Love/Hate Facebook
I get why Facebook can be a good thing. Like my mother, I love seeing photos of folks I know (although not so much their [...]
Secret Sauce
The sauce was a perfect blend of mayonnaise, summer vacation, Tom Terrific, rainbows, and ambrosia.
A Degree Day of Observations
Seated there was a very elderly, diminutive woman, dressed in black, with wild white hair and a pixie-ish expression, very [...]
Lanny
Lanny was SO cute. We were in 10th grade Geometry class together and our lockers were close to each other. I barely spoke to [...]
Brahmins, transcendentalists, and Sunday school science
...sometimes there would be fresh snow, sparkling white on the granite steps.
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