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carolsartain
Jul 17, 20185 min read
Ma's Drinking Days Dementia
After due deliberation, my sister said her mother was definitely not an alcoholic. On the other hand, I was fairly certain mine was....
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carolsartain
Jul 10, 20186 min read
Fear of Fire - Part 2
Last time I told you about house and trashcan fires. This time I want to tell you about the stove, fire reflections on the wall, hook and...
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carolsartain
Jul 3, 20185 min read
Fear of Fire - Part 1
My mother gave birth to two sets of twins by C-section and came home with one baby girl each time. This is not as tragic as it sounds. ...
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carolsartain
Jun 26, 20186 min read
Fear of Heights
Yesterday I noticed a light bulb needed replacing in a ceiling light fixture. This is easy to do. You get on a step-stool, unscrew the...
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carolsartain
Jun 19, 20185 min read
Jewish Easter
Previously I told you about how I celebrate Easter now, but what I meant to tell you about was how I celebrated Easter when I was a child....
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carolsartain
Jun 12, 20184 min read
Suicide Eggs
Every Easter Sunday for the past 5 years, this Jew goes with her Jewish daughter, Catholic son-in-law, and a host of Italian Catholics,...
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carolsartain
Jun 5, 20184 min read
How I Found Happiness for $181.62
Mornings are often hard for me. I used to think I was a morning person. That’s because we had 6 people living in a house with one toilet...
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carolsartain
May 29, 20185 min read
Family Meals at Ma's House
It’s been my recent observation that western women can be divided into two camps: those that love dinnerware and those that are mildly...
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carolsartain
May 22, 20184 min read
An Apology to Previous Husbands, or 20 Years and a Rice Cooker
Throughout these meandering memoirs, I’m quite certain I’m going to paint my former husbands in less than flattering terms. Before I...
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carolsartain
May 22, 20183 min read
Timing is Everything
Nora Ephron felt bad about her neck. I was reading her book of that name for the second time, thanks to my daughter who gifted it to me...
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carolsartain
May 15, 20182 min read
Daya Mata and the Tick-Tock Clock
The brain gets imprinted when you least expect it. If I’m quiet I can still hear the tick-tock of my childhood alarm clock. It was one of...
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carolsartain
May 13, 20185 min read
Camels and Tigers
After wandering around the house looking for something to do, I drove to Azusa…which is not named after A-to-Z-in the USA, never mind...
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carolsartain
May 13, 20184 min read
Dark Jewish Humor
For years, people have been telling me I need to write down the stories I tell about my life. This happens whenever I go on a...
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carolsartain
May 13, 20184 min read
An Open Love Letter to Chuck Lorre
Leonard Nimoy died before I got the chance to tell him the two stories I’d been saving to share in person; stories that proved he’d...
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