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1963, the year I started college, was a rather schizophrenic time for women. There were glimmerings of feminism and social activism, but a lot of the old expectations for women lived side-by-side with these new ideas.
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He climbed up the slide like a superhero, reassuring the child not to worry saying, “Don’t be afraid. I’m here for you. I’ll go down with you.”
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On this Halloween, I pray the results of the upcoming election do not make it into another one that haunts me. Our country deserves a treat rather than a trick this time.
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Random thoughts from a nasty woman facing a long winter … One of my favorite political memes is “Nevertheless, she persisted,” said by Mitch McConnell to Elizabeth Warren back in February of 2017. She refused to be silenced while reading a letter into the Senate record written by Coretta Scott King opposing Jeff Sessions for…
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The more computer savvy I became, the less contact I had with those little humans who mattered so much to me.
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As one of our guides said, “They disappeared.” Only their shoes remained behind. Some of them were so tiny.
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Weejuns represented my journey in college to becoming my own person.
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Funerals were forbidden when I was growing up. They were mysterious events my parents attended with other adults. My first introduction to this final rite of passage was my grandfather Philip Krut’s funeral on May 2, 1972. I was 26 years old and the mother of a one-year-old. Did I attend alone? Were my husband…
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In Judaism, turning thirteen is a big deal. For generations, boys were called to read from the Torah in a ceremony called a bar mitzvah, which marked their entry as an adult into the Jewish community. This was a boys-only club until March 18, 1922, when American rabbi Mordecai Kaplan held the first bat mitzvah…
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I was 68 when my “write brain” took over. I have written over 800 stories and a book since I retired. While I don’t do brain games, my brain is far from idle. In fact, it may be a bit too busy.
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The Tenth One Goes to Michigan
Prompted By Buttons, Pins, and Badges
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The Kindness of a Child
Prompted By Random Acts of Kindness
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Haunted by the 2000 Election
Prompted By Ghosts of Elections Past
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I’m Persisting, I’m Speaking, and I’m Voting
Prompted By Buttons, Pins, and Badges
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How Computers Wrecked What Really Mattered
Prompted By Life Before Computers
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Shoes That Made Me Cry
Prompted By Shoes
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Walking Away from Home in my Weejuns
Prompted By Shoes
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Good Funerals
Prompted By Final Farewell
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Bar/Bat Mitzvah Reflections Over Generations
Prompted By Rites of Passage
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My Write Brain
Prompted By Brain Games
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