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French Dip
Prompted By Swimming
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French Dip One of the things I was determined to do when I retired was to perfect my French. My husband’s parents were multi-lingual, he heard French spoken at home, and he speaks it fluently. But although I studied French in both high school and college, my mastery of that beautiful tongue was…
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Three-Ring Circus
Prompted By Stress
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Three-Ring Circus A working woman who’s also a wife and mother can sometimes feel like a juggler in a three-ring circus. I was working at a job I loved when I discovered I was pregnant, and I happily applied for a maternity leave to start two weeks before the baby was due. (See My Brown-Eyed…
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Life After 60
Prompted By Turning Points
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Life After 60 Like most of us I’m sure my life has had many turning points – one certainly was leaving home after college, another my first job. And then marriage, and parenthood, and that three ring circus as a working woman/wife/mother! And then in my early 60s I retired after my long career as…
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Sleeping Arrangements
Prompted By Training Pets
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Sleeping Arrangements What’s more fun than a new kitten? (See ASPCA) But they do require some serious training to show them who’s boss. So the day we brought Jackie home from the ASPCA we read him the house rules – don’t bite the hand that feeds you, keep your paws off the house plants, and…
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Cross Country by Mustang
Prompted By My Car of Yesteryear
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Cross Country by Mustang The summer of 1966 we were newly married when my husband Alan accepted a medical school externship in Denver. The plan was to drive from New York to Colorado in our new red Ford Mustang convertible. The problem was the car had a stick shift, and used to driving automatics I…
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Bronx Girl
Prompted By Is Where I’m From Who I Am?
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Bronx Girl “The Bronx? No thonx!” wrote the poet Ogden Nash. As a kid growing up in the Bronx I didn’t get it, I didn’t realize my borough had a bad rap, and I certainly wouldn’t have understood why. The Bronx was my home and I loved it. (See Parkchester, Celebrate Me Home) I even…
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Cincinnati
Prompted By Prejudice
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Cincinnati Jackie Robinson was subject to unimaginable prejudice. Teams would bring up their Southern minor leaguers to taunt and insult him. One day during a game in Cincy, a border town to the former slave state of Kentucky, Robinson’s Dodger teammate, Louisville native Pee Wee Reese walked over to first base and put his arm…
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Broken Ankle
Prompted By Dangerous Deeds
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Broken Ankle I’m the type who tends to play it safe. In fact I can’t remember any really dangerous deeds done or risks taken. Although I once jumped off an elevated deck thinking the drop down was shorter than it actually was. It resulted in a compound ankle fracture keeping me wheelchair bound and…
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The Gs
Prompted By Ex-Friends
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The Gs Louise and I were both living in the women’s graduate dorm at Columbia in the 1960s while I was in library school and she in the social work program, and we soon became fast friends. Within a few years after grad school we each married, happily our new husbands hit it off, and…
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Diversity, it’s on Tap
Prompted By Disunited States
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Diversity, It’s on Tap On Nov 19, 2022 a 45 year old Army vet named Richard Fierro was with his wife Jessica, their daughter Kassie, and some friends at Club Q, a gay bar in Colorado Springs. They were on the dance floor when a man armed with an AR15 -type weapon entered the club…
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