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Monthly Archives: December 2012
Bread and Salt
It’s an old tradition that when someone you love moves into a new house you bring them bread and salt as a housewarming present. Bread so they’ll never go hungry. Salt so they’ll always be blessed with good luck. I … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
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J’entre dans la salle de classe
Author’s Note: I am well aware that the following post is probably missing accent marks and cedilles galore. Quelle dommage. I can not, for the life of me, figure out how to accurately type in French. And I’m sure that … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
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Phonathon
In the mid-nineties I had two kids in boarding school. And like private schools everywhere, St. George’s relied heavily on its private endowment to grease the wheels. There were, of course, no public funds to pay for new bricks and … Continue reading
Posted in pop culture
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Thirty-three years ago, my then husband Bill and I belonged to the Racquet Club in Palm Springs. In those days every vacation we took revolved around tennis. I didn’t play but I didn’t mind. While he was on the courts, I … Continue reading
Posted in Tributes
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Extra Credit
My son Nick’s snowboard trail to a college diploma was a winding one. He started off at Colorado Mountain College at Steamboat Springs with a K2 Eldorado snowboard and the best of intentions. He had chosen this school based … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
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Nothing Happened
Author’s Note: The following story is true. Some of the names have been changed. No slur or mean inference was ever meant to be cast on any person, place or profession. (And don’t ask me who “he” is. “He” could … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
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Tattoo You
Author’s Note: Hanukkah is upon us and I think it only fitting to mention that my son Nick doesn’t have a prayer of being buried in a Jewish cemetery. Paging Larry David… Every year when flu seasons rolls around, I … Continue reading
Posted in pop culture
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Prize Day
Stop the presses! For the first time in Letter From Elba history, I am benching a post! I am sending in a substitute. The post that was supposed to run here today is entitled “Tattoo You” and it’s fun. But … Continue reading
Posted in Tributes
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Rite of Passage
The summer of ’65 my mother got tired of combing the corn fields, empty lots and weedy playgrounds of Wilmette, Illinois night after night. She was looking for my eleven year old brother who never met a pick-up baseball game … Continue reading
Posted in Tributes
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