Today's Stories from the Retrospect Archive
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My Mom Was a Wonderful Mother, But Her Cooking…?
My mom was a wonderful mother in many ways – patient, modest, innately kind — but she was not a particularly good cook. [...]
Signs of election times
Trump signs are thankfully MIA, and Biden signs are relatively rare, since this preference is assumed.
Hillary
Hillary. Rodham. Clinton She has been a woman I admire since 1992. There is so much I could say about her, but like the [...]
Lessons from My Father
The lessons from my father were never actually lessons. That is what has stayed with me so strongly over all of these many [...]
Lucky Lady
Going into business is always dicey, you might even say a crap shoot, but I have a habit of it. Back in the early ‘90s, I [...]
Still Life with Grape and Hotdog
I glance up from the piano and listen to his James Taylor-inspired voice sing the lyric we have crafted and feel dizzy with [...]
Little Sister
In 1961, Elvis sang "Little sister, don't you do what your big sister done." But I was always trying to do what my big sisters did.
A Broken Hallelujah
Decades of slow progress towards gender and racial equality seem to screech to a halt, leaving ugly orange skid marks on the [...]
Reconnecting people is what I do
Hands down, though, my best reconnecting project was, at age fifty, finding all the kids who were in my sixth grade class.
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