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Tag: death

May 27, 2018

My Father Gave me Art

  On October 2, 2017 my father passed away. He was in his own home in Long Island, in a bed provided by hospice, his fourth wife Sue, his youngest son Chris, my youngest sister Alison, and me surrounding him. I had been there for eight days, leaving a school visit I had in  Rye…

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May 13, 2018

I Hate Mother’s Day

I hate Mother’s Day   Seems fitting I would start my blogging career on Mother’s day, a holiday I have despised for over fifty years. Contrary to the popular cynical belief, Mother’s Day was not invented by card companies to sell greeting cards, but ceaselessly lobbied for, by Anna Jarvis to honor her own mother….

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