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SAMUEL MARCK (COVID)

Posted on December 2, 2020 by Esther Cohen / 7 Comments

Last week a reference librarian named Erica in the Grand Forks North Dakota public library responded to my email about Samuel Marck, my mother’s father. I...

About Me/choices/Coronavirus/family/Jews/roots

My Mother and Father Were Both Born in July (COVID)

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Esther Cohen / 1 Comment

I think about them more than I did before they were married before they were parents when my mother tap danced when my father played violin  my mother had boyfr...

About Me/choices/Coronavirus/County Route 20/family/roots/TRUE

How Life Changes (Relatives) (COVID)

Posted on July 12, 2020 by Esther Cohen / 2 Comments

We live with family now. We were lukewarm about  relatives (not all but many) now because of the pandemic and small apartments big house in the country rooms fo...

Love/meditation/prayers/religion/roots

5780 (Day One)

Posted on September 30, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 1 Comment

Today’s the beginning of the Jewish New Year, day when we remember prayers that all begin May We and then, generic hopes for joy and good, for justice and...

choices/family/Good Stories/religion/roots

Other People’s Secrets (Book Doctor)

Posted on February 11, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 5 Comments

I like reading them though their words aren’t mine, my own words harder to find. Memoir today about a family who lived a normal life, immigrants,  Jewish,...

Getting Older/prayers/roots

I Am Changing My Hair Today

Posted on December 8, 2018 by Esther Cohen / 3 Comments

This morning I’m on my way to Anita’s to change my hair.  Don’t ask me how I was talked into orange.   What’s funny is the people who sa...

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