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Posted on February 26, 2019 Leave a Comment
At 7 a.m., in the nearly empty parking lot of a well-maintained office building – a building which, by the way, had a contract with Metropolitan Flower Exchange for regular placement and maintenance of seasonal plants, as well as a super named Joe, whose broken Italian-English often left us mystified – I sat and read […]
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose….
Posted on March 1, 2014 Leave a Comment
In high school, I took French because a. the Latin teacher had had enough of me by 10th grade and b. Dorothy Parker probably spoke French. She was interviewed for The Paris Review, so it was likely. And she worked for Vogue, which is, after all, a French word, n’est-il pas? Oh, and I liked […]
Summer is Coming
Posted on March 1, 2014 2 Comments
The weather this past weekend – a short winter reprieve – reminded me of a short story I once read as a child by Ray Bradbury, All Summer in a Day. In it, a young girl is locked in a closet by her jealous classmates for the two short hours in seven years that the […]
A Girl by the Bridge 
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