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Voices

Inner voice as intuitive guide, the undeniable presence of a voice, the voice of silence

Children Kissing

“Ma! Ma, Patty’s up the big tree again kissing Billy! Ma!” I kept looking at Patty’s smooth face across the branch from me in the tree, and hearing Tony shouting into the house.

Sonnet For Contemplating A Woman

Milkweed

L’chayam

You want I should tell you about Abie — he should rest in peace. Sixty years I know him. . . . A long time. . . . The things I could tell you. You know the Freiheit? No? Of course not. By you it means nothing.

Cross Country Snow

Sam saw Hannah turn and beckon to him. He had stopped to watch her slide across the snow the way, years ago, those figures in the Munich Glockenspiel had seemed to slide out and turn so delicately before disappearing behind the face of the big clock.

Making Marriage Last

Put the marriage first, resist the marriage trap, marry the right person

Sunbeams

Few are born to do the great work of the world, but the work that all can do is to make a small home circle brighter and better.

George Eliot

Tully

Now in the long evenings after dinner she often found herself standing before the bathroom mirror, trying hard to glimpse some of the prettiness her husband had always championed.

Visiting Parents

A noodle kugel, some missing underwear, a “magic cube”