SUGAR AND WINE AND SHOPPING
Milestones, traumatic events, celebrations, births, deaths and everything in between. This is what the closing of one year and the opening of the...
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TWENTY ONE
TWENTY ONE I was sitting on the dark non descript seat of the school bus, front row, of course, taking the practice ride with my son who was about ...
Read moreAN AWKWARD FRIEND
AN AWKWARD FRIEND I met Kim Walker, formerly Kim Otterbein, through simultaneous traumatic events. My business had suffered a flood from frozen pip...
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TO THE MAT I was in the midst of planning a huge event in Boston, my first one. I had the job of my dreams working at the young age of my late twen...
Read moreA HAPPY ENDING
A HAPPY ENDING The cabinet, the dark almost black filigreed mahogany one shaped like a quadrangle, is that what those symbols were called in geomet...
Read moreFACE DOWN, CAPE OFF
FACE DOWN, CAPE OFF “Let’s go for a walk,” I said chirpy and wide eyed. “Yes, great idea,” Michael replied. “I won’t go to the gym. Cliff Walk?”...
Read moreGIRLS AND SEX
GIRLS AND SEX I stood there at the counter that separated generations. I was in sixth grade and there it was, behind the counter in the Hands Off, ...
Read moreMY FAVORITE THINGS
MY FAVORITE THINGS Last year I wrote about my favorite places to shop around town and that hasn’t changed. Bristol has some really lovely places as...
Read moreWHILE THE COFFEE PERKS
WHILE THE COFFEE PERKS My phone and technology is getting to me. It has been for quite sometime and I fantasize regularly about discontinuing it co...
Read moreMIRACLE OF LIGHT
MIRACLE OF LIGHT With Hanukkah fast approaching this Sunday eve, there is a welcome pause that occurs in my world before the mayhem of December. My...
Read moreFORGIVENESS AND GRATITUDE
FORGIVENESS AND GRATITUDE During Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, two of the more prominent and important Jewish Holidays, there is a call to action t...
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