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When I did a DNA test, there was a surprise. Not the 50% Ashkenazi Jewish side from my dad, but from the 42% I inherited from my mother’s British…
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Beth Kaplan
20
Beyond the Finish Line
Conquering the Beast
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Barry Nashen
15
Surfacing
Surviving a near-death experience
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Sari Lubitsch Tudiver
4
Breaking News Mid-week
Read it here first
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Alice Goldbloom
47

March 2024

Can You Say That Again?
I'm aging gracefully in an age of auditory enlightenment
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Ruth Miller
24
Singing Up The Mekong
I was born in a city that is an island. And I grew up on another island in a different part of the world. Perhaps for that reason, I’ve always been most…
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Lin Morency Buckland
14
Saying Goodbye
There are eight faded robin’s egg blue dining chairs that remain, an Edwardian sewing table, a massive bookcase, a coffee table constructed of pieces of…
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Kristin Shannon
38
The Library Cop
March is National Reading Month
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Paula Halpin
16
We’ll Always Have Karl
It was a muggy August New York afternoon, and David and I had temporarily escaped the city, ducking into a cool church basement thrift shop. Racks…
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Mariam S. Pal
21

February 2024

Chaos and the Art of the Deal
Gotcha!
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Bryan Demchinsky
20
Now We Are Spry
When Ruth and I were mere girls of 60 or so, wrapping up the coffee date that sealed our friendship, she made a declaration about the next phase of her…
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Rona Maynard
49
Every Penny Did Double Duty
The darning egg
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Irene Templeman Walker
13
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