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Jun.08.2013
I like to go places, but as many trips as I take, I always feel like there was something I should have known or done before I left the house. These few tips, I share with you. Please add yours!
1. Always pack a ligh fleece jacket. I don’t care if you are going to...
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Jun.05.2013
Córdoba. Lejana y sola.
Can you hear it? The faint strumming of a Spanish guitar playing softly in the background? Can you hear the longing, the melancholy, the simmering, passionate finger work against the strings? A singer comes in, silent at first,...
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May.16.2013
The best parenting advice came to me in the form of my son’s first kindergarten report card from a hippy, progressive school in New York that relied on narrative instead of letter or number grades to let you know just how well your child was doing in school. They didn’t want to quantify their...
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May.09.2013
My mother did not like Mother’s Day. All I can remember was her calling it a Hallmark Holiday. She said it was just a way to sell greeting cards and that every day was mother’s day. But I have my own children now and will be celebrating my 28th Mother’s Day this year on a day that...
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Apr.28.2013
Never one to shun electronic advancements or tiny new gadgets and toys, I tend however to wait a bit before jumping in. I cannot claim to be the first to own a personal computer, the first to use a cellphone, or the first to make home movies for the old VCR. I do tend to know about...
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Apr.26.2013
Since I have not lived in my home town for over 40 years, I have also not been a recent member of my home church, but last week I went back for a few days to visit my family. On Sunday, I sat quietly and looked around, trying to recall what I would have seen in that exact place when I was in...
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Apr.24.2013
In New York, there are many types of buses. Typically, the main routes have buses that stop every two blocks or so, but on weekdays, the same route offers "limited" buses that stop every ten blocks or so. They are meant, clearly, to get you to work really fast, almost before you can...
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Apr.16.2013
Getting ready for bed just now, I heard a train whistle out my window. It’s been a little warmer, more like spring, and I’ve started leaving the windows open just a crack at night to get some air. This train was not all that way off in the distance, probably ten blocks or so from my...
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Apr.09.2013
How can you not love the word “toggle?” It has that wonderful rocking motion to it, as if the activity of toggling was somehow calming. In fact, I have learned that toggling, the very worst kind of E-multitasking, is anything but calming. It’s definitely addictive, it’s highly...
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Apr.05.2013
They say that goldfish brains are so small that each time the fish swims from one side of their bowl to the other, they think they’ve gone some place new. They are content to explore the same few square inches of water because to them, since they don't remember where they've been, it’s all...
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Apr.02.2013
Spring is a sketchy business where I come from. It comes and goes with the day, one day warm, one day cool again, like a boat trying to right itself in choppy water. Then you can wake up on some random Tuesday and not even see that the boat is under full sail, gliding out across a calm...
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Mar.28.2013
I take lots of buses in New York. I have always preferred buses to trains and I try to make sure I have a book or a few sale catalogs to read while I go from Point A to Point B. Buses have come a long way since I moved here many years ago, no pun intended. They are heated and...
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Mar.26.2013
Imagine a secluded spot. You have the hammock all to yourself and soft ocean breezes. You have someone to cook for you, someone to make the bed, and someone to keep your pencils sharpened. You have a super speedy Internet connection, all the Post-Its you could ever want, and the...
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Mar.13.2013
It's easy to identify the Nancy Drew and Dana Girls mysteries as my favorite children's adventure stories. When I read those little books, I wanted to be the one with the answer, the one to solve the crime, the one to show the grownups that this teen could do it. These girls were...
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Mar.04.2013
My mother died last spring. It is difficult to say, but we were never really close after I left home to go to graduate school. I wanted her to call me more often but was never sure what I wanted to say, and I’m sure she wanted to call me but couldn’t find a way through to do it. I...
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Solvitur ambulando. It is solved by walking.”
About Anne
I have been an editor and writer all my life. I write poems, short stories, essays on family history and my view of living in a big city after growing up in a small one. I like an audience or I would keep my writing in my notebook. This...
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