Browsing Category Essay & Memoir
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Love in the Time of COVID
Our little mid-century ranch, with its limestone exterior and big picture window, sits clustered together with other mid-century homes—tri-levels and A-frames—in a neighborhood that straddles the bustling city ...
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How I Became Greta and Alan
For an absolute stranger, Bob Coyne calls a lot. Over the past two years or so he has called at least once and sometimes as many as twenty ...
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Shame and Blessings at the Coin-Op
Just before the virus drifted into the world, a friend I’d recently met texted that she was nervous. Her washing machine had broken at the worst time, just ...
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Her Name Was Nina
I didn’t know this baby. I didn’t know what she looked like apart from a couple of surprisingly cute ultrasound printouts. I didn’t know her personality, except that ...
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the long way to a small, angry inbox
Normally, this wouldn’t matter so much. A few nights ago, I logged into an old Yahoo account that I habitually checked and used for retrospective purposes: I’d had ...
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Off.
As usual, you start with the door to the fire escape. You see that the latch is locked but you unlock it anyway. Now pull twice to make ...
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When Death Comes From the Skies
The first plane appeared in the eastern sky at approximately 4:30 in the afternoon. It was a member of the Condor Legion, a Nazi unit that had been ...
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For Greenwood
When my husband and I were much younger and had more leisure time, we decided to binge-watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It was my husband’s idea. I had ...
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Chisinau, 2017
There are moments of stillness and moments of motion. The evening of my arrival in Chisinau, I take a slow walk down the frozen city streets, past a ...
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Love Letter to My Soon to Be 13-Year-Old Black Son
Dear Sonshine, That’s what I call you because the mere sight of your go big or go home smile is like the sun filtering through our shutters on ...
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Reciprocal Identities
I admit a degree of relief that my youngest daughter is so different from me. My bookshelves are lined with novels and two editions of The Norton Anthology ...
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What Kobe Bryant’s Dear Basketball Can Teach Us About Legacy
It’s been about five months since Kobe Bryant died in a fatal helicopter crash that killed nine people including his thirteen year old daughter Gianna. As the world ...
