Today's Stories from the Retrospect Archive
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Saturday in the Park
I am always delighted to enjoy any garden, as long as someone else does the work to maintain it.
Placerville, 1888 — Galoots in mud boots
I had no idea that part of me had come from this place, a California boardwalk town in the northern Sierras. I’d grown up in [...]
Ribbon Barrettes
My pre-teen daughters spend hours weaving the ribbon in/out of the barrette, creating colorful patterns that match every [...]
A Block of Newspaper
I tied piles of accumulated newspapers together to form a solid block of newspaper, which I used as a guest stoop.
An Afternoon With Mrs. Jack
I took a course on Northern Renaissance painting with Professor Ludovico Borgo in my last semester at Brandeis. For our final [...]
Lightning Bolts
As Mark Twain said, “Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.”
A Lifetime of Tribes
My life has been enriched by every community I have been part of, every group with which I have shared a common goal and a [...]
Such Devoted Sisters
“Sisters, sisters, there were never such devoted sisters.” This 1954 Irving Berlin song was sung by Rosemary [...]
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