Written Words
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Ring! Ring!
Dear Ginny, Just in case you forgot some of the wonderful techniques we showed you to program and expand the functionality of your modern communications device, remember you do have a back-up. You can return to something a bit more familiar. A slightly older model. A machine that a good many people with those fancy-shmancy…
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Post Cards
Two post cards from Joyce Pope Cormier during a 1962 camping trip to Wisconsin with her husband and two kids. August 11, 1962To Mrs. Douglas Campbell Hi all – The week has sped by. This is Sat – I think. The weather has been lovely since we arrived. Warm days. Cool cool cool nights. Good…
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Fambly
Families are the ultimate uncontrollable combination of blood, love, relationships, mood, beliefs, goals, dreams, and preferences for flavors of ice cream, all moving, vibrating, and interacting in a never-ending swirl of casual variability. The family dianamic usually approaches a zero state when members land here…
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Banana Split
The memories of food. There once was a restaurant just around the corner from where I live called Rye. When I first saw the sidewalk placard advertising which direction I should walk in order to partake, I figured it was a specialty joint that only served whiskey. Being a gin drinker, I had to think…
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Covid Schmovid
I am in Brooklyn, and Steve is in Factoryville, and we are both doing well. It dawned on me a few weeks ago that this is my first pandemic. Of all the things that I imagined that I would live through, a pandemic was way at the bottom of the list. Right below witnessing the…
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The Magic Hour
At the end of every day there are a few precious minutes when the sun is low enough in the sky, the clouds are in the right place, and the light ricochets off the underbelly of the atmosphere. All of a sudden the world is golden. Everything around you seems as if it has always…