(Since the age of 11, all I valued in life was love, all I cared about was finding my soulmate, my own true love – everything else was secondary) All my life I wanted to know myself. Place the answers inside a silver wand, then if black rain ran over me I could wave…
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Suprise Me
In Flannel Robes
Prompted By Struggling with Values
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(Since the age of 11, all I valued in life was love, all I cared about was finding my soulmate, my own true love – everything else was secondary) All my life I wanted to know myself. Place the answers inside a silver wand, then if black rain ran over me I could wave…
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Thankful
Prompted By Reunions
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Everyone’s Gone to the Moon
Prompted By Moon Landing
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Sunday, July 20, 1969. “The Eagle has landed.” Hard to believe that it has been fifty years since we heard those words! Yes, I remember watching the moon landing, but my story about it has more questions than answers. Principally, what was I doing in Cambridge that weekend? It was the summer between my freshman…
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The Summer of My Discontent
Prompted By Pandemic Summer
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The Summer of My Discontent This was to be the summer I really worked on my tennis game, and planted my garden earlier, learned to play Mah Jongg, and caught up on all those unread New Yorkers. And this was to be the summer I finally mastered the barbecue, and took out my old…
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Righteous persistence brings great rewards
Prompted By Reconnecting
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Now that decision seems pre-ordained and perfect, as life never is--but it is for me.
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Also Sprach Zarathustra
Prompted By First Dates
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A blind date to a boring movie is not a recipe for success
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Watching Lacrosse with Dick
Prompted By An Unforgettable Person
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Watching Lacrosse with Dick I’ve written before about my friends Celia and Dick. (See Moving Day Blues and Carving Mr Pumpkin) Dick is no longer with us but he’s impossible to forget. He was a wonderful guy – bright, warm, witty, cultured, well-read and world-travelled, a gourmand and a bon vivant, an historian and writer, and founder…
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A Christmas (Eve) Story
Prompted By That Night
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As much as my family loved Christmas, we loved Christmas Eve more.
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Livin’ La Vida Loca
Prompted By Travels
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Memorial Day to the Fourth of July, a good length of time for a vacation
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Mushroom Barley Soup on Sunday
Prompted By Comfort Food
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On Sunday nights in Detroit, it was good Jewish deli food for our family. Darby’s was the destination, either eat-in or take-out. Built by Sam Boesky (whose brother Ivan was the disgraced financier of the insider trading scandal of the mid-1980s), it could hold 375 people and served 5,000 hungry people daily. My parents and…
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