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Five Minute Friday: What is "together"?

August 7, 2022

Five Minute Friday: What is “together”?

TOGETHER: Many of my days this past week have led me to question what “together” really means. As I mentioned last week, my dad became hospitalized on July 26 after a fall at his assisted living facility. My daughter covered the first hours after his admission (because I was out of state on business). I […]

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July 31, 2022

How to “be” with a hospitalized loved one

BE: Today would have been my parents’ 63rd wedding anniversary. My mom died in February 2018, so this anniversary and the previous four have only been in our memories, not celebrated in-person. This is a picture that came up in my TimeHop today. It was part of a display at Tenley’s and Stewart’s wedding last […]

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red lens sunglasses on sand near sea at sunset selective focus photography

July 17, 2022

6 highlights of summer so far

One of the Kat Bouska prompts this week is: List your top 6 summer moments so far. Here are mine: The Orlando Fringe Festival My son, daughter-in-law and I went to the Orlando Fringe Festival in May. (I know summer doesn’t technically start until June, but it was so hot that weekend, it must have […]

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July 10, 2022

Five Minute Friday: The circle of life

TWENTY: One of my cyberacquaintances posted on his Instagram story today about taking his niece to her first Broadway Show, “The Lion King.” I’m not sure exactly what age his niece is, but the post led me to respond to him that “The Lion King” was the first Broadway show I took Tenley to. She […]

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Don't forget what it felt like to be a teenager

July 3, 2022

Don’t forget what it felt like to be a teenager

Back in March, I gave a very small contribution to a Donors Choose project that seeks to create a “personal pantry” for high school students at New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn, N.Y. (more than 75% of the students at this high school come from low-income households). I got an email from Donors Choose today […]

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June 26, 2022

Five Minute Friday: Two situations handled unconstructively

AWARE I have been thinking a lot recently about how terrible I feel about things I did or said when I wasn’t aware how much damage they were causing. In one case, I was partially responsible for making a report about a fellow resident at a place where I lived (I was the head resident) […]

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