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A Piece of the Action
Then the paramedics began running up the hill with stretchers and backboards. Still, no Cindy.
Growing Up With an Aluminum Christmas Tree — Not a Love Story
My parents choreograph this family tableau to imbue my brothers and me with the holiday spirit -- to allow the aluminum [...]
Is It Safe
The movie Marathon Man was released in 1976 and Laurence Olivier played the part of Szell a former WWII Nazi German enroute [...]
Rosie and Milt, the Literary Lady and the Second-Story Man
Rosie and Milt,  the Literary Lady and the Second Story Man My uncle Milton wasn’t exactly a hardened criminal,  but the [...]
It All Came Together
There is a certain time in one’s life when she knows she is ready; she is in her prime. That happened for me the summer [...]
Good Causes
Good Causes When we moved to Manhattan’s Yorkville neighborhood in the mid-1970s I was a young mother on maternity leave at [...]
RMV Where Lines Stretch Farther Than Your Patience (and Perhaps Your Sanity).
Ah, the RMV. A mystical land where fluorescent lighting casts a pale pallor on dreams and paperwork morphs into origami [...]
Little House in the ‘Hood
At last I was successfully disentangling from a bad relationship with an incipiently psychotic partner and needed to move [...]
Oh, The Places I’ll Go!
Last year, the year of lockdown and confinement, I was finally able to achieve a longtime goal: to walk the entire Camino de [...]
Required Reading for Living on Earth
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Our differences are what we share -- the fact that we are different, all of us from one another, is how we are the same.

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Writer’s Choice

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