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Redlines, artists, and mobsters
All seemed very normal in this town, as long as you stayed in your lane.
Carol
There was no Facebook or Instagram in 1970. I sent a postcard to Brandeis with my preferences: neat, non-smoker. Over the [...]
Haunted by the 2000 Election
On this Halloween, I pray the results of the upcoming election do not make it into another one that haunts me. Our country [...]
Is That You, Mrs. Schwartz?
We live in a large, one story, L-shaped house. Though 70 years old, we are only the third owners. It is a contemporary, and [...]
Unleavened
Unleavened Passover is a joyous holiday when we Jews celebrate our freedom from bondage in Egypt. Every year at the Seder we [...]
Saturday Night at the Big Y
Saturday Night at the Big Y When the lights went out in New York during the great northeast blackout of 1965, I was browsing [...]
Lost and Found. And Lost and Found. And . . . .
And then, I realized that a lens had fallen out. Jeez. While I was riding on the back of an open truck traveling at 65 [...]
It’s a Zoom World
March 15, 2020. We were having a socially distant dinner at close friends. An annual winter event of mac and cheese usually [...]
Channel 56
My second grade teacher, Elaine Zeve, first engenderd and fostered my desire to act as she read “Charlotte’s [...]
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