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Easter makes me… uncomfortable. My anxiety couldn’t possibly be from the time Great-Grandma Kathryn sprayed the lawn with pesticides the day before…
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For the longest the time, I thought my mother didn’t like me very much. Of course, she loved me in the obligatory ways. She fed me, bathed me and read to…
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My family never had the money to buy a Christmas tree—not even a fake one. So, when I was around 10 years old, we brought home a tree that had a lot of…
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Like a lot of Jews on Christmas Day, my family congregated at the movies and Chinese restaurants.It became a time-honored tradition to gather around and…
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What I hear is her voice. In the kitchen. Singing along with Elvis. She pulls cookies from the oven and stirs the chili in the crockpot. "I’ll have a blue…
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Holidays are hard. There, we said it. Often, stress runs high, money runs low, and there are all these expectations of how things should be. You don't…
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Fire, roaches, bad roommates—he's had them all.It was a perfect day, an almost clear blue sky. Long Island Sound lay stretched out before me. Sand…
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"Home was having the same friends and stuff and family around me. It was watching the sun rise over the beaches of Australia and breathing in the minty,…
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I either heard or read recently that, of the top two tragedies that can happen in a person’s life, the most challenging is for someone you love to die.…
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What would you do for a Klondike bar?I grew up in a family on the sensible and pragmatic end of the spectrum in the sensible and pragmatic state of…