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Sending You a Bit of Light
 • Alice Goldbloom
54
The Joy of Still Being Here
 • Alice Goldbloom
16
I Shouldn't Be Writing This
 • Alice Goldbloom
61
Some Things Never Change
 • Alice Goldbloom
39
Aging As Best I Can
 • Ruth Miller
27
Saying Goodbye
 • Kristin Shannon
39
I Shouldn't Be Writing This
I was getting ready to send you this week's story—a charming one about an Irish Yank—but I couldn't do it.
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Alice Goldbloom
61
When Less is More
My longtime grocery store has closed.
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Judith Andre
13
The New Joseph
Joseph, our departmental messenger, was a gold medal contender in the swivel chair sleep Olympics, during my tenure in the mid-1990s at the African…
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Mariam S. Pal
4
Does One Tire of One’s Beating Heart?
My mother smiled indulgently when I polished up my trumpet and travelled with my university’s Varsity Band to football games in other cities where we…
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Peter Newman
46
Forgetting and Letting Go
I keep wondering about giving aging a voice, not a whine but a voice in the literary sense.
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Susie Kaufman
43
The Day I Mistook a Woman for a Hatstand
RP Moments in Time
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Pat Mayberry
8
The Best Job on Earth
I am fairly certain that my husband’s first thought each morning is of the weather.
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Adair Heuchan
10
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