Accounting was just add-subtract-multiply-divide, right? Apparently not.
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Suprise Me
Left Brain or Right Brain?
Prompted By The Road Not Taken
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Accounting was just add-subtract-multiply-divide, right? Apparently not.
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I Don’t Know How It Feels To Be U
Prompted By Inequality
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Things were getting better. Or were they?
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V-day Mini Rant
Prompted By Valentine's Day
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A saint's day isn't an appropriate holiday for nice Jewish girls, mom said.
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A Tribute to my Father
Prompted By Father's Day
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I lost my father, suddenly, more than 27 years ago. I miss him every day; his gentle spirit and home-spun wisdom. At the time of his death I had a 4 year old and an 8 month old child. I realized there was so much I wanted to ask him, to know about him. He…
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Vax Thrill
Prompted By Vaccination
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At his mid-afternoon press briefing on Wednesday, February 17, Governor Baker announced that anyone over the age of 65 would be eligible for vaccination the next day. The roll-out had gone badly so far, with only health care workers, first responders and those over the age of 75 being eligible to receive vaccinations and many…
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No Shrinking Violet
Prompted By Nudity
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Charlie leered at me, “Hey doll, did you pop out tonight?” Charlie was Charles Werner Moore, a much-respected director, actor, and acting teaching at Brandeis (though I wouldn’t take a course with him until the following year) and director of the first Main Stage show my freshman year at Brandeis. He never learned young womens’…
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Every day is a snow day
Prompted By Snow Day
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Reader Advisory. Iron Butterfly’s“In-A-Gada-Da-Vida,” and Simon and Garfunkel are referenced in this piece. If an earworm ensues, counteract it by singing “Bingo” (you know, “there was a boy who had a little dog and Bingo was his name-o…”) Snow days During grade school snow days, Chicky Ross, Danny Corsi, Tommy DiPetro and I used to…
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Celebrating the New Year Over a Lifetime
Prompted By The New Year
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Looking over the ways I have celebrated the New Year, it’s hard to remember why it used to be such a big deal.
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Hair: a devastating dilemma
Prompted By Hair
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Hair. Always been a big deal to me. I accomplished hormonal lift-off at 11 and immediately shifted into hyper hair-awareness mode. I simultaneously stumbled upon my first rebel role model — James Dean. I became fascinated with him, not for his work in film — Who knew what a method actor was? — but for…
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