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Howard is 95 (COVID)

Posted on December 28, 2020 by Esther Cohen / 1 Comment

We will celebrate his birthday today  in spite of COVID and December and a very cold day we will go to lunch  sit in an updated Succah  updated Succahs all alon...

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Meyer Cohen (COVID)

Posted on December 22, 2020 by Esther Cohen / 0 Comment

In the process of looking for information about my father, Meyer Cohen, a rabbinic man, cautious, with long white fingers and a slow smile, a man with a dry sen...

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Goodreads (Covid)

Posted on December 18, 2020 by Esther Cohen / 3 Comments

This morning I received an Urgent Message from Goodreads, a site for books.  Someone stole my password and wrote reviews by me of books I’d never read. Bo...

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Chanukah Day 2 (COVID)

Posted on December 11, 2020 by Esther Cohen / 2 Comments

    We light candles because we know we all need light.  Now especially. We light candles every single day for the beauty of lighting candles,  and to...

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THIS ISN’T A POEM (COVID)

Posted on December 9, 2020 by Esther Cohen / 9 Comments

How Families Change   DEAR FRIENDS,  THIS ISN’T A POEM.  I TRIED TO POST A PIECE THAT CAME OUT IN MUTHA MAGAZINE YESTERDAY (I’M NOT VERY GOOD A...

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Family Tree (COVID)

Posted on December 8, 2020 by Esther Cohen / 2 Comments

Yesterday in the ongoing search for relatives some of us are making a Family Tree and I who am the least organized of us no charts my files are entitled Some Go...

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