Today's Stories from the Retrospect Archive
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Jessie’s Earrings
Jessie’s Earrings It’s sweet how a chance word can evoke a flood of memories. My mother Jessie is gone more than 20 years and [...]
Modern Dance Lessons
Looking back at modern dance lessons in Manhattan, and the drive through the Holland Tunnel to get there.
The Fortune Cookie Candidate
The Fortune Cookie Candidate As the most important presidential race of our lifetime approaches, and we hold our collective [...]
Out Of Bounds
I am out of bounds and I know it but the title ‘Broadcast News’ coincides with one of my favorite movies so I am [...]
A picnic with Velma
She didn’t seem thrown off by how forward I was, or by the fact that I had not bothered to give her any advance notice I was [...]
Three-Dimensional Chess. Players: Taiwan’s Martial Law, United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, Me
From 1965-67, I studied Chinese in Taiwan, Republic of China. Although I was a dedicated student, I found myself more [...]
Vexatious Voting
Like many baby boomers, I cast my first vote for president a few months after graduating college. But I never got a chance to [...]
About that curse, and those few drops of blood
in spite of the King's precautions, the princess, who is described as a free spirit, stumbles into...someone working at a [...]
Give Me Just A Little More Time
Wow, blue books! So many memories! I considered calling the story “Blank Space” — because there was always [...]
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