Next month will mark my five-year anniversary as a non-smoker. I’m happy to say that I don’t miss it at all — which surprised me at first, since all I’d ever heard from ex-smokers was how much they still craved cigarettes. Once, during one of the eleventy thousand times I tried to quit, someone who [...]
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My Grandmother’s Hats
May 11th, 2010 · View Comments · flashbacks, photo essays, writing
My grandmother was a classy dame. So classy, in fact, that she’d probably disapprove of my calling her a dame. She was a lady.
(When she died, and family gathered together to talk to the rabbi about her life, I remember my mom and aunt saying something like, “She never wore pants. Because ladies didn’t wear [...]
Tags:1940s·1950s·1960s·fashion·grandmother·hats·history·mad men era·Minnesota·st. paul·vintage
Cast your mind back to Fall 1991 . . .
April 2nd, 2010 · View Comments · flashbacks, writing
First of all: I am not going to spend the month of April going on and on and on about MY PLAY. I can’t promise I won’t spend the first week and a couple days thereafter discussing it in some part, because it is a brand new project and I am excited about it and [...]
Tags:1991·anita hill·clarence thomas·college·feminism·screenplay·script frenzy·writing
The first in what will assuredly be a series
March 12th, 2010 · View Comments · flashbacks, writing
You guys.
I’m reading the diary I kept when I was 13. The one I got for my bat mitzvah, the one with my name embossed on the inside front cover, only it’s spelled incorrectly. (Who leaves out the final E in Michelle? You may have your one-L-or-two preference, but that last E is pretty crucial.)
(I [...]
Fish will eat anything
March 5th, 2010 · View Comments · flashbacks
The following was inspired by a writing prompt courtesy of Write One Leaf.
My family wasn’t the outdoorsy kind (too much nature), but I don’t think it’s possible to grow up in Minnesota and NOT go fishing at least once. And while ice fishing is definitely something one needs to experience — again, at least [...]
Tags:fishing·Grand Forks·lake fishing·Minnesota·North Dakota·outdoors
I was always a dork.
August 12th, 2009 · View Comments · flashbacks
This picture cracks me up.
Things to note:
1. That is indeed the Grand Forks Herald I am “reading.”
2. The topmost headline of the paper reads “New murder trial granted by court for double slayer.” Just in case you, like many people I know, were under the impression that the Midwest, and North Dakota in particular, were somehow [...]
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