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Liver & Onions by
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Prompted By What We Ate

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My father appreciated every meal my mother prepared for him as if it were the best meal he'd ever eaten.
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Moving On by
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(359 Stories)

Prompted By Turning Points

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Patti and John Zussman are among my oldest and dearest friends. So I was pleased and honored when they contacted me, nearly three years ago, to be a beta tester for their new website “MyRetrospect.com”. They explained it was a story-sharing medium for baby-boomers to tell their tales, based on prompts the site would provide.…
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Billie Jean by
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I’ve always loved to dance and grew up in and with Motown and the Jackson 5. Little Michael was a phenom. Great voice, dancing whiz; he could do everything and captivated us. We loved to sing along to those early songs and imitate the dance moves. He outgrew his brothers and became the biggest show…
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A Millennial View by
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(302 Stories)

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This is an op-ed piece my daughter Molly wrote for her college newspaper back in 2016.
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A Pair About Shoes by
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(90 Stories)

Prompted By Shoes

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Well, since this is a prompt about shoes, I figured that a pair of stories would be fitting. The first one is an excerpt from my book. The Red Shoes They were fire-engine red. Cherries in the snow red, million-dollar red; movie star pouty lips, just like on Mad Men red—an I-mean-business red. They had…
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Wanting to be Susie S. by
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(298 Stories)

Prompted By Imitation

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My journey through high school from 1959 to 1963 was more about what I wished I could be than about actually becoming my own person. For me, that didn’t happen until I left home for college.
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Impressions: Radios by
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(194 Stories)

Prompted By Remembering Radios

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Two little Sony's and a tabletop radio in my bedroom.
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Dancing with the Stars, 1960s Version by
200
(298 Stories)

Prompted By Fame

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It is so true that, as Andy Warhol famously said, “In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.” During the summers of my freshman and sophomore years of high school, I indulged my interest in theater by becoming an apprentice at Northland Playhouse in the newly built Northland Mall in a suburb of…
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I Cheated on Tests in First Grade by
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(34 Stories)

Prompted By Exams

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My boss said "I'd love to spend an hour inside your head someday".
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Back to Living by
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(359 Stories)

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I consider March to be the beginning of year three of the pandemic. It was in March, 2020 when the virus began to affect my life. My last in-person event at the Rose was a lecture by acclaimed artist Fred Wilson, followed by a select group going to dinner in Waltham on March 3, 2020.…
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