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My grandmother, Lina Dreher, was sixteen when she kept this diary. Lina and her sister Tillie work in the family bakery where they recently installed a candy counter and ice cream parlor. In some …
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Ramona Jan
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8/16/22
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Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional by Isaac Fitzgerald (Bloomsbury). This guy, with his Auld Sod last name and Old Testament first name, is clearly well known to almost everybody but me: often on …
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George Ernsberger
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8/12/22
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Finally some relief from the heat, but there is still a lot of summer left, so the heat will be back. While your’re watering your plants everyday, don’t forget to check your …
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Jim Boxberger
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8/12/22
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Thanks to my smart phone I no longer have anybody’s phone number memorized. I simply go to my contacts list, scroll until I find their name and dial it up. Of course, I cannot actually …
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Hudson Cooper
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8/12/22
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The Bergen Record dragged Bill Ervolino out of retirement recently and I am borrowing part of what he wrote in one of his columns. Ten years ago he became frustrated while trying to order iced …
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June Donohue
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8/12/22
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It started with tooth soap, a soft, long thread of creamy material used for brushing teeth typically made from saponified olive and coconut oils, distilled H2O, and Himalayan salt. The idea came from …
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Ramona Jan
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8/9/22
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Self-Portrait with Ghost: Short Stories by Meng Jin (Mariner/Morrow). Faithful readers with good memories (all of us here, surely) will remember a lead review in January, ’20, of Meng …
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George Ernsberger
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8/5/22
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I don’t mean to be a prude, but does everything have to be done in the nude?
I mean, besides the obvious.
I’ll let you decide what constitutes the obvious, but I’m …
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Barry Lewis
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8/5/22
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My fiancee is a man of few words, and instantly when tasting this macaroni and cheese last night he said, “That is a winner, Claire”, which means this is a recipe I need to hold onto.
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Claire Stabbert
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8/5/22
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Welcome to August, hot and humid, just in time to go on vacation. But if you are not lucky enough to be able to go on vacation, you have to deal with this heat everyday at work.
At least …
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Jim Boxberger
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8/5/22
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Most of us are familiar with the canned meat product called Spam. But thanks to a British comedy troupe, the use of the word spam has spread way beyond the kitchen table. Spam has made its mark on …
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Hudson Cooper
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8/5/22
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My grandmother, Lina Dreher, was sixteen when she kept this diary. She worked as a store clerk in the family bakery/ice cream parlor. In this excerpt, she mentions visiting the grave of sibling Em …
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Ramona Jan
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8/2/22
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