FROG IN HER THROAT 0:00 / 0:00 Frog in Her Throat I used to phone my grandmother every Saturday morning. Although Benedetta died few years ago at age 106, on some Saturday mornings I still wake up ready to dial her number. We’d start out the same way: “How are you, Grandma?” “I’ve got a […]
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LOCALLY SOURCED PET TO TABLE DINING 0:00 / 0:00 Pet to Table Dining Growing up, I desperately wanted a pet. We lived in a tenement bordered by an asphalt driveway in the back and a concrete sidewalk in the front. Our apartment was so tiny that we needed only a cook stove to heat the
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DON”T GRAB THE STICK 0:00 / 0:00 Don't Grab the Stick Once, as I waited for my husband, Bruce, outside the door of a Trader Joe’s in Manhattan, a blond-haired man walked up and stood uncomfortably close to me, definitely well within my personal space. He looked as if he’d stepped out of a Brooks
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MAGICAL THINKING 0:00 / 0:00 Magical Thinking I am a big fan of magical thinking. The technique has carried me through many a rough patch in life. Recently, I was having a bad day. They say bad events arrive in threes. That day, my bad incidents numbered nine. Nothing truly horrible occurred. However, if I
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TO CHARLOTTESVILLE WITH LOVE One morning, as I drove down a narrow country lane in Charlottesville, I spotted an African-American boy, about eleven, perched on a bike. He sat in the middle of the road, precisely at the center of a blind curve. I thought, If a driver speeds around that curve, the child will
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TEN TIPS FOR WHEN YOU’RE HOME SICK 0:00 / 0:00 Ten Tips For When You're Home Sick When you are sick, don’t watch the nightly news. If you do, in addition to your current illness, you will wind up developing an ulcer. Also, don’t view Stranger Things when you’re feverish. You will regret it, unless
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THE DRESSMAKERMOVIE REVIEW The Dressmaker is a viewing experience you may want to miss. I normally love weird and quirky films, but this Australian movie ventured into the nether regions of weird and quirky, and not in a good way. Kate Winslet plays Tilly who, as a
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I SEE DEAD-ISH PEOPLE 0:00 / 0:00 I See Dead-ish People In this age of alternative facts, whom do you believe? Once, when talking on the phone with my 104-year old grandmother, Benedetta , she mentioned that had seen her 100-year-old baby sister, Israela at the nursing home that day. Did Great Aunt Israela still
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TRAIN IN THE RAIN 0:00 / 0:00 Train in the Rain The Chinese philosopher, Lao Tzu, said, “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” I prefer to plan a trip and arrive on time. One day, I intended to leave Charlottesville mid-afternoon and get to Alexandria in time for
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WHILE THERE’S STILL MUSIC LEFT 0:00 / 0:00 While There's Still Music Left This past fall, my ninety-one- year old father attended my nephew’s wedding in Burlington, Vermont. At the reception, while enthusiastically jitterbugging with another relative, hands did not connect. My father launched into space. Unfortunately, he did not experience a gentle re-entry and
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