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“I don’t do summer.”
I was tired and grumpy, and even the cool of my favorite around-the-corner-from-work-with-a-faculty-discount bistro was not up to the task of lifting my spirits. read more
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Stillness, Nothing-Happening Moments
April 10, 2014
In March at a beach in North Carolina, a group of people I have known for a long time gathered read more
Tags: Akhil Sharma, Burning Down the House, Charles Baxter, experience, Family Life, fiction, Kawabata, memory, Palm-of-the-Hand Stories, senses, stillness, writing
In the midst of it all
June 14, 2012
On Memorial Day, a lifelong New Yorker who served with the Marines in Vietnam read more
Tags: Lower Manhattan, Lt. Marion Lee "Sandy" Kempner, meaning, Memorial Day, memory, Perspective, sacrifice, US Marine Corps, Vietnam Veterans