We asked just two questions. The first was whether they supported or opposed the ERA. The second ...
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Suprise Me
Stop the ERA
Prompted By Women's Lib
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We asked just two questions. The first was whether they supported or opposed the ERA. The second ...
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Laugh, laugh, I thought I’d die
Prompted By Comic Relief
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Things that have made me laugh over the years: phony phone calls, Firesign Theatre, Dave Barry, cat filters on Zoom, and my son.
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The Marvelous Escalator of Bishal Bazaar, by Jeff Greenwald
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He prostrated himself before this divine sight, this river of steel issuing miraculously out of the ground.
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Organ Recitals
Prompted By Pain
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My friends and I often engage in organ recitals — Not the musical type but rather what is hurting today and can it be fixed.
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Enchanted
Prompted By Favorite Fairy Tale
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In one of life’s ironies we moved to an even nicer part of town when my father fell ill. Our new house, set on a hill, had an enormous backyard and an adjoining wood lot wildly overgrown with flowering shrubs, abandoned rock gardens and a crumbling stone wall. One side was steeply graded and seemed…
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We Are Family
Prompted By Cousins
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Once we were six, and now we are five. First cousins. We lined up like this: my sister, the oldest; the only boy; two of us born a few months apart; the middle of three sisters; and the baby. We posed for pictures together from the time we were toddlers. In the beginning, there were…
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Life in the Age of COVID-19
Prompted By Vacation or Staycation from Hell
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Chorus is canceled. Trips to California and Europe, which would include visits with our children – gone. Gym shuttered. Restaurants open for take-out only. “First-world problems”, a friend teases. He is right. We have our health, we have food and plenty of toilet paper (what gives with the run on toilet paper?). I did grocery…
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A Good Show is Hard to Sleep Through
Prompted By Memorable Performances
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"And what good news: a new Tom Stoppard play, “Leopoldstadt”, is opening at Broadway’s Longacre Theater this fall..."
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No Way Out
Prompted By Hair
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WO-HE-LO*
Prompted By Scouting
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My mother was our Blue Bird leader. As such, she went out of her way not to show favoritism…so much so that when we put on a little production of the Pied Piper of Hamlin, I was cast as one of the rats.
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