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Nov 1, 2019

Ferries: A Love Story

The ferry Seastreak glides across New York Harbor, bringing our sleepy family home after a July 4 outing to Sandy Hook beach in New Jersey. Off to the left, a seagull skims the water, its speed momentarily matching ours. To my right, the towering Parachute Jump at Coney Island glows…

Travel

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May 27, 2018

Brave? Me? Nah.

“So you’re traveling by yourself?” the woman asked me as we wrapped up a tour of Dexter Avenue King Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, this past April. When I answered yes, she said, “Wow, that’s brave.” The woman — about my age, late forties — was part of a Friendship…

Civil Rights

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Brave? Me?
Brave? Me?

May 13, 2015

A Rookie at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament

Or: How Do People Write That Fast? Well, this didn’t bode well. I had just, with great excitement, received my packet for my first-ever American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and saw that my contestant number was … 13. …

Puzzle

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A Rookie at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament
A Rookie at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament

Aug 17, 2013

My Father’s Leg

My grandfather was born in Croatia in 1897, a year and a place that assured his propulsion into the meat grinder of twentieth-century Europe. At seventeen he was drafted into World War I and promptly captured on the Russian front. During his imprisonment—on a family farm, according to my father…

Father And Daughter

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