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How Katerina Became Bert and Other Pet Name Tales by
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Prompted By Naming Pets

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Allowing kids to name their pets leads to the most creative and special pet names.
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Christmas Lobsters by
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Prompted By Pandemic Holidays

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How we started our most cherished Christmas tradition!
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Cranking it out — a reflection on the end of work by
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Prompted By Retirement

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Is this retirement? I ask. Nah.
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The Chemistry Cheat by
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Prompted By Cheating

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At this point I had to make a split-second choice. I could stop and tell Mr. C or just let it go.
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9-11 in the Pfau Household by
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Prompted By 9/11

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We came off the Vineyard just before Labor Day, 2001 to a house in renovation chaos and our family in chaos. My in-laws had always spent the parting days of summer with us on the Vineyard, then the beginning of the fall with us in Newton, but Erv passed away the previous May. Gladys still…
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Tracing Our Roots by
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Prompted By Family Trips

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Hermine & Naftali,  Paris 1939 Tracing our Roots I’ve written about a family trip we made years ago tracing my roots to Charleston,  South Carolina where my father was stationed during the war and where I was born.  (See Parkchester, Celebrate Me Home) More recently we traced my husband’s roots to the German city of…
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Phantom of the Opera by
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Our hearts all skipped a beat, so you can imagine the child’s terror, her scream piercing the waiting area.
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Road Trip to Cleveland by
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Long before President Eisenhower built the interstate highways, my grandfather, Philip Krut, drove his family from Detroit to Cleveland.
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Still Life by
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Prompted By Lost and Found

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Still Life My mother Jessie was a damn good pinocle player. (See My Game Mother) But she was also a wonderful artist.   A fine arts major in college,  she later studied at New York’s renown Art Students League with the Russian-born artist Raphael Soyer celebrated for his paintings of social realism. Jessie went on to teach…
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The Two Sisters of Antofagasta by
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Antofagasta is a northern port city in Chile.
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