Family
October 4, 2009
- Kathi, my daughter Laura, and I are staying here in New York City with the Jewish Don of New York Restaurateurs, Kathi’s cousin Alice Cutler. Going out to eat with Alice is serious business. For instance, when we eat dinner at her family style Italian restaurant Carmine’s enough food is placed on our table to feed the entire Polish nation. And when we protest we have had enough, because we ...
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October 4, 2009
- Like most people, I've been through some changes at my job in the past year. Between the hundreds of layoffs and multiple company re-orgs over the past 11 months, employee morale is at an all-time low. Everyone is struggling to stay motivated, with the rumor mill churning out weekly reports of gloom and doom yet to come.Although I escaped the company cuts (so far), I did fall victim to the ...
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October 3, 2009
- My son came home at seven-days-of age. Fifteen years later, I am still in Nursery Nirvana. From the moment I first held him in my arms, I have felt a deep pride in him and how he came to be my son - and he knows it.We have always discussed adoption naturally and openly, and with great joy. I call him my Very Special Child and even wrote a book by that title for him. He is giving a copy of it ...
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October 3, 2009
- I sat for a minute, looking at the counselor who had requested the meeting, trying to decide if I had heard her correctly. I felt my left hand press against my pounding heart."Did you say, 'incapable of learning?'" I queried. "Yes," she responded, and proceeded to mouth paragraphs of jargon, which my confused brain was incapable of comprehending let alone ...
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September 29, 2009
- He's unloading huge, rounded river stones from the back of his truck. I ask what he's making. The mason, currently of Fort Bragg, California, lately of San Diego and before that a lifetime pitched in Park City, Utah, where he lay rock, mounded fireplaces and bricked walks for the rich and famous, is building a retaining wall for a bright, white cottage in Mendocino.He puts his fingers to his ...
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September 29, 2009
- I have to admit, I’m still pinching myself. I guess I’m trying to ensure that this is real—this living in Prague, and traveling Europe with the whole family. I find it amazing to be able to hop in the car, drive through a few countries, and a handful of hours later be standing in the heart of the Alps. Wow! And as we cross borders, to change languages and currencies like we would slip into ...
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September 28, 2009
- Recently I read an email from a young mother of a one month old baby born with cleft lip and palate. Her tearful post recounted a scene in her local grocery store earlier that day. As I read her account of what had taken place, I remembered a similar incident which had happened to me and my son, and the anger began to build.First, let me say that we mothers of children born with craniofacial ...
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September 25, 2009
- From the pebbled pavement of Oxbow Drive, the house is pretty, but unremarkable. Constructed in the 1970’s, when aluminum siding was all the rage, this house is baby-blanket blue with brick around the door and the downstairs windows. The faded shutters were white at one time, but now long for some fresh paint. It is a house that suggests security and family and normalcy, reflecting the ...
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September 16, 2009
- This essay was filed for the "forgiveness" blog competition, and has now been removed due to the sensitive, personal, and emotionally charged nature of its content.
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September 11, 2009
- So I have less than a month to get my 150 pages done, and at this point, it's looking impossible. I'm spending hours writing each day, but have this horrible habit of editing as I go, which eats up a bunch of time and doesn't result in much content. My husband tells me that I should just write and write and then edit later, but my brain won't work that way. I think I must have some form of ...
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