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family/Getting Older

Valley of the Dolls

Posted on July 17, 2018 by Esther Cohen / 0 Comment

I’ve never been a good sleeper my parents took a rare trip to Acapulco with the Galens or Puerto Vallarta once when I stayed with my Aunt Bessie in her ho...

family/Getting Older/summer

What Summer Is

Posted on June 29, 2018 by Esther Cohen / 0 Comment

besides hot, very hot, life is more green more blue more open the light can turn days bright yellow even gold when I remember more than what I knew my father an...

Poetry

Seventh Grade (2)

Posted on June 26, 2018 by Esther Cohen / 8 Comments

Robert Zuraw was our seventh grade teacher.  A Greek man, he lived on Franklin Street in a house with a big Greek family. Relatives and relatives. In our small ...

Poetry

How We Find Each Other, or the Unpredictable Nature of Where, or Next Door

Posted on February 13, 2017 by Esther Cohen / 0 Comment

  I’ve been collecting these stories all my life. Julia C. Steele met Rebecca McGrath inthe Ansonia Public library.  1960 and that was that said Juli...

Getting Older/Good Stories/Poetry

My Mother And What We Remember

Posted on October 1, 2014 by Esther Cohen / 3 Comments

Although I’d like to believe otherwise maybe it all comes down to my mother. She never said Boy Am I Happy You Wrote That Poem. Even my seventh grade poem...

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