A saint's day isn't an appropriate holiday for nice Jewish girls, mom said.
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A Year of Loss

It’s hard to believe it’s been a year since the pandemic robbed us of life as we knew it.

And in this frightful year I’ve lost several beloved friends.   Although it was cancer and heart disease that took them,  it was Covid that kept us from gathering together to mourn.   Zoom funerals and memorial services didn’t allow us to embrace,  or cry in comforting arms,   leaving many bereft to deal with our grief alone.  I’ve written about three of my lost friends.   (See Comfort Food for Renee,  Inks and Derek: Art and the Cricket Scores  and Cantor Gladys)

I will write about the last,  but for now I grieve.

Renee,  Derek,  Gladys, and Gerhard

RetroFlash / 100 Words

– Dana Susan Lehrman

I am not a big fan of Valentine’s Day, a holiday that creates such high expectations that one is almost bound to be disappointed.
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The fact that she is tall, shapely and extremely attractive was not lost on me....
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