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The Mendlesteins Lived Next Door to Us at the Beach

Posted on October 29, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 0 Comment

Harry Mendlestein owned a hardware store in Milford, Connecticut. He and his wife Joanie and their two children and his widowed sister Lil and Lil’s daug...

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Yom Kippur is Over, and Forgiveness

Posted on October 10, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 6 Comments

(I’ve written many forgiveness poems. ) Forgive me because I am not usually the person I would like to be don’t take the high road oft...

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Oct 3 Days of Awe Continue

Posted on October 3, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 6 Comments

Although it is raining although our President remains although there are floods and tornadoes even on an island in Ireland where there have never been floods an...

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Their Adrenals Were Fine

Posted on September 26, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 7 Comments

Yesterday at the endocrinologist’s office I lwish everyone was like the endocrinologist a Big Mensch I have Hashimoto’s Disease had it for years you...

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Home from The Azores (Part One)

Posted on August 20, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 4 Comments

Funny what people say when they come back from vacation. Usually a version of It Was Great. Or Great But. I’ve always been obsessed with What We See and ...

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Always Delores

Posted on July 15, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 0 Comment

How Delores, although she is usually too dizzy to dance doesn’t feel herself 87 Big List of wrong body parts came here she can’t drink anymore eat...