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Small Kindnesses

When my mom died, we asked people to bring rocks (she liked this Jewish tradition of remembrance) to put in a basket in her memory. Some folk painted rocks, some…

The Last Thing

Grief is an oscillation between want and have, between need and want, between here and gone. It does strange things to a person. When my mother died I kept saying…

40 years

‪Some anniversaries we don’t need to remember. ‬ ‪My Da just called to remind me that it was 40 years ago today that his father, my Gramps, was killed in…

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