Suprise Me
How lucky can one person be?
Prompted By Aunts & Uncles
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Falling in Love at the Theater
Prompted By Memorable Performances
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In 1964 our family drove cross-country to see the World’s Fair in New York. On our last day in town, my mom and I took the subway to 51st and Broadway to see Funny Girl starring Barbra Streisand. I was 13, starstruck, and thrilled to be in New York. But when we entered the Winter…
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St. George
Prompted By Pets
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Prospective lizard owners take note, you also become cricket ranchers.
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Black Ice
Prompted By Danger
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After two warm days, January 18, 2001 was cold and sunny, prompting everything that had previously melted to freeze again. I had a morning meeting at the Rose Art Museum in Waltham, followed by lunch with an old friend who had moved to San Diego long ago, so I dressed nicely, even wearing my mink…
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Thoughts on Life, Writing, and Inspiration
Prompted By What We Read
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W.P. Kinsella died last fall. For those who don’t know, wrote the book, “Shoeless Joe” upon which the movie, “Field of Dreams” was based. He also wrote, “The Iowa Baseball Confederacy” (along with a slew of other novels and sort stories). Both those books I read on recommendation from my father (who is gone…
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The Car That Smelled Like California
Prompted By My First Car
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The case of wine slid across the carpet and the bottles fell out. With a crash, one broke.
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Surprise Tongue
Prompted By What We Ate
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The Ties That Bind Us
Prompted By Reconnecting
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My reconnecting stories begin with ways to rekindle old ties that have fallen away over the years.
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The Gossips
Prompted By Gossip
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The Gossips The prolific American artist and illustrator Norman Rockwell painted The Gossips in 1948 and like innumerable of his works it graced the cover of The Saturday Evening Post. As was his habit, Rockwell used his friends and neighbors as his models, and in The Gossips he even included himself – that’s the artist with his ubiquitous pipe…
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My Comments on the “Procrastination” Stories
Prompted By Procrastination
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