Today's Stories from the Retrospect Archive
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Bobby Kennedy and the Year That Took Him
Bobby had the gift of empathy -- the ability to see the world through the eyes of the poor, the unrepresented. Whereas his [...]
My First Experience with a Computer was a Disaster
Disaster struck. My thesis had vanished. The computer had eaten it and refused to spit it out.
Downtown, Everything’s Waiting for You*
Two department stores. All sorts of other downtown fixtures – jewelers, women’s fashion, men’s stores, Army-Navy, hobby [...]
My Last First School Day
“Heck,” my partner suggested “Go back to school. Who knows? — maybe you'll even learn something.”
Weddings are great, but it’s just a day….
I was not nearly as concerned with the minutiae of planning my wedding as I was with the marriage that would follow. In [...]
One child’s path from marginalization to equality
My own reconnecting with Laurel took place during the December holidays, spring breaks, or summers, the only times I was home [...]
Hotel Kittens
Hotel Kittens As you may remember I spent childhood summers at my grandmother Esther’s hotel in the Catskill town of Liberty, [...]
Lightning Bolts
As Mark Twain said, “Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.”
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