Suprise Me
‘We are the Music Makers, We are the Dreamers of Dreams”
Prompted By Poetry
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Baby Girl
Prompted By Grandparents & Grandchildren
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Baby Girl Downstairs in the open loft apartment, I hear above me my daughter and her husband and my new grandbaby having one of those rapturous conversations that involve cooing and squeaks soft-voiced tender words and, sweet giggles and chuckles that wrap the love of the deep presence with and around this moment. That Alive, …
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The Lady with the Torch
Prompted By My Hometown
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The Lady with the Torch Like many New Yorkers I’m sure, I don’t take in the local sights unless out-of-towners are in town! So when friends from China were visiting recently we decided to take them to the Statue of Liberty where I probably hadn’t been since I was a school kid. Tickets to…
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Marvin: Remembering a Writer
Prompted By Potpourri (Writer's Choice)
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Hoping the Democratic Convention Isn’t 1968 Again
Prompted By 1968
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The violence exacerbated by Mayor Daley’s draconian crackdown on protestors at the 1968 Democratic convention helped to elect Nixon, a far worse alternative than Humphrey.
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Retreat
Prompted By Cousins
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Retreat A dozen or so years ago my cousin Kathy called me in New York from DC and asked me to join her the following month for a Jewish women’s retreat. Because geography had always kept us apart, spending a weekend with my cousin was appealing and a women’s retreat would be a new experience…
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Cash
Prompted By Best Advice: Money
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My grandfather loved horses and gambling more than he loved my grandmother, so he spent a lot of time at the racetrack.
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British Summer Time
Prompted By Changing Times
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British Summer Time I confess I’m rather chauvinistic about New York. The city’s been my home pretty much all my life and I love the hustle and bustle, the theater, the 24/7 vibe, the people-watching, and I don’t even mind the noise and the traffic. Don’t get me wrong, I love to travel and…
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60% of the Revenue, 40% Less Stock
Prompted By Working
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I interviewed for a year, but it was a start-up and they weren’t ready to hire salespeople. I was looking to leave the software company I worked for and come to this one, as the product was a good fit with what I already knew. In fact, it could serve as a friendlier front-end to…
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Johnny never said goodbye…
Prompted By Those We Miss
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Ever lose somebody without saying goodbye? A friend goes off to war, he wasn’t drafted, he enlisted, it’s been awhile, you’ve gone in opposite directions. No rancor, just divergence, then gone. A girlfriend slides into her father’s car to drive home too late. You lean down, kiss her through the window. She’s so pretty, her…
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