Share Ripe red pomegranates piled high in the produce section of my neighborhood grocery -I’ve been buying one every day. Junot Diaz – I’m laughing and crying my way through The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which I somehow missed when it was first published. Last night in bed, I kept reading sections...
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Share On this anniversary week of the 9/11 attacks, I’ve been thinking a lot about how it felt then to be an American, and how we’re feeling now. I remember acutely the day, of course, the immense shock and the dawning realization of our vulnerability. We were experiencing directly what we’d never encountered, an...
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Share There are 260,000 graves in Arlington National Cemetery. This weekend each one of them has an American flag on its headstone, placed there by soldiers of the 3rd U.S. Infantry. Today is Memorial Day, the day on which we traditionally honor the men and women who died in military service. In 1971 Memorial...
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Share This weekend Christians will celebrate Easter, while Jews are celebrating Passover. For many other people, this will simply be a lovely Spring weekend. Whatever you’re doing, I wish you joy. I believe that in every experience, there are levels of meaning, and that is certainly true of our religious holidays. Today, Good Friday,...
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Share Today is World AIDS Day, commemorating the 34 million living people with AIDS, and the nearly 30 million who have died. The numbers are so big they’re hard to take in. But for me, as for so very many others all over the world, AIDS is a personal story. One of those 30...
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Share Today our old doggie died. Blackie was the last one of the pets that grew up with my “second family” of children, a golden retriever/black lab cross. As the final animal survivor of that era, he outlived Mia, a tiny terrier; Jake and Jana, golden cocker spaniels; Sadie, our calico cat; and Little...
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Share If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you’ve shared some of my journey through the loss of my friend. Thanks for being with me. I originally wrote this on April 7th, a couple of weeks ago: Share this:
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