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Latchkey 2024
Mariya turned the key in the loose lock of the weatherbeaten red front door, and entered the front hall cluttered with boxes, spying the backpack and…
Mar 11
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February 2024
The Only Thing Resembling A Ship
with apologies to Bill Least-Heat Moon
Feb 3
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January 2024
First Figs
A short essay about how the beginning of fig season coincides with so many endings
Jan 23
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Joy to Find
2023 was a year of seismic change for me. I had surgery at the end of 2022, and had one ovary and both fallopian tubes removed, putting a full stop at…
Jan 3
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December 2023
Dispatch 5 from Portugal
Hello Lovely Readers, This is my fifth and final dispatch to you from my solo trip to Europe in November. Amazing and weird to think I’ve been home for…
Dec 18, 2023
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Dispatch 4 from Europe -- Hello Portugal!
Reader, we are back on this journey together. I took it solo in November, and in case you missed the first few parts they are here, here and here. Let’s…
Dec 11, 2023
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Dispatch 3 from Barcelona
in which we take a Spanish Civil War walking tour and make a rookie sunblock mistake on the Mediterranean
Dec 3, 2023
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November 2023
Dispatch 2 from Barcelona
For those just tuning in, I arrived home last Friday from my big solo trip to Barcelona and Lisbon, my 50th birthday gift to myself. It was spectacular…
Nov 24, 2023
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Dispatch from Barcelona
it's not an homage, but it sort of is
Nov 20, 2023
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October 2023
My teaspoon of sand.
Pete Seeger, the great folk musician, gave an interview in 2004 on Democracy Now! in which he described the injustices of the world as a box of rocks on…
Oct 23, 2023
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What I've been reading & listening to
I haven’t done one of these in some time. Those of us in the US who observe Indigenous People’s Day may be home tomorrow, so I thought I would share a…
Oct 8, 2023
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Finding the nachas in Duolingo
It's Yiddish for joy.
Oct 1, 2023
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