People Archives - Esther Cohen

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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...

hope/People/politics/prayers/race/religion

Stacey Abrams, or Where Hope Is

Posted on April 17, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 2 Comments

That she stands there smiling even before she says much and we many of us not every single person because that would be impossible we feel better because she is...

hope/People

Hope Took the Form of Chesa Boudin Yesterday

Posted on February 25, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 4 Comments

running for DA in the city of San Francisco Chesa spoke yesterday at Annie’s apartment raising money telling us all he will try for restorative justice fo...

family/grandparenting/People/prayers

Khanyi and College and Education

Posted on January 22, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 1 Comment

Ms. Ndaba is a senior at The Buxton School and she’s applied to fourteen schools. What are they looking for. What is she looking for. What about money, an...

Life and Death/People/prayers

My Friend Kay Died on Christmas Day. She was 92.

Posted on December 26, 2018 by Esther Cohen / 6 Comments

She was a student in my class at Manhattanville College where she got her third Masters Degree. Kay went back to school when she retired. A writer she always...

People/Poetry

Philomena Said

Posted on December 14, 2018 by Esther Cohen / 0 Comment

she came from London because she wanted to be Bojangles and that’s why she moved to New York. A professional tapper she tapped and tapped and then she le...