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Some Things I Know

Posted on April 26, 2020 by Esther Cohen / 5 Comments

Davey was happy to talk on the phone when I called even though we hadn’t talked since college. He said he could describe his life if I had the ti...

friendship/Getting Older/Life and Death/Love/TRUE

Party for Joe

Posted on December 9, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 2 Comments

Saturday Joe celebration Joe loved parties people discussing everything he danced with Annie last New Year’s Eve at a bar on 72nd Street liked going to l...

hope/Life and Death/Poetry/TRUE/words/writing

There Are Always Poems

Posted on December 3, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 4 Comments

Even on difficult days when a close friend dies Things Happen the way they do because life is when Things Happen snow and a strange woman falls then she gets up...

Life and Death/Love/mother/TRUE/words/Yiddish

Mothers

Posted on November 26, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 8 Comments

Harder to be a mother than I understood when I was just a daughter never thought much about the Mother Side and now after all these years I know for sure my mot...

body parts/choices/hope/Life and Death/Love

Sheila Jordan is 92

Posted on November 19, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 1 Comment

Last night we heard Sheila Jordan amazing is not amazing enough for Sheila Jordan singing on her birthday same as Mickey Mouse we’re both 92 she said She...

Getting Older/Life and Death/Poetry/writing

A Poem for Joe Because He Loved Them

Posted on October 31, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 5 Comments

He read poems read words read playbills out loud book flaps even a menu years after he got dementia still read poems even on the stage at Brevitas never...