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Passing on Passover
This year, Passover is proceeding largely unobserved. We always host the seder, though not one of our extended family reached out for details. The stack…
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Jill
For my beautiful daughter-in-law on her birthday.
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Babies
For Noah
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The Waiting Room
how excited we are to meet you, little not-here-yet, unnamed; eager to flesh out the light in your parents’ eyes. it makes us a little crazy, the…
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Bookends
We met up in a Greek diner, their suggestion; symphony of faux classical statuary and knotty pine. We hadn’t gotten together since we literally couldn’t…
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Escondido
For Hannah
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Outrage vs. Inspiration
The other night, after watching the news, I had a nightmare about Trump winning the election. In it, I was with my family at a diner. Above the counter…
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Paper, Scissors
Back when I was teaching, I had a student I could not manage. Control was never my strong suit, and, in a school for creative writers with admission…
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Motherhood
at best inexact, at worst, inscrutable, a pop quiz i failed more often than passed. the earnest grow from mistakes; pressed to bend, barraged by…
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Good Company
Some days, I’m on fire. Snappy comebacks, lightning recall. I dazzle even myself. The ocean called, and they’re running out of shrimp! Other days, I’m…
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School of Hard Knock-downs
the way i remember it was 1962, summer, dusk. back then, helmets were for halloween astronauts; alex of long blond hair and me of short brown astride…
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Singing on the Sidelines
This year, Easter Sunday was a like regular day sans agenda. I was not dashing around the kitchen trying to be cordial while panicking over serving…
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