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On Jan. 20, 2009 our 4-year-old daughter forced my husband and me to retrofit spectacles of prejudice. What do I mean by that? That was the day on which Barack Obama was sworn into office, and as my husband and I watched the festivities unfold on television, Evie could not stop asking why so many […]

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My grandmother died in 1995 after a long battle with breast cancer.  In all of the years of her illness, I cannot recall her using the word “cancer.”  She spoke of being “sick”, “weak”, “unwell”, and she asked me, on her deathbed, to remember her.  “Don’t forget me,” she would say repeatedly, frail and bald […]

All I really need to know, I learned at camp (to borrow a phrase from Robert Fulghum). This may be a slight over-simplification, but it is greatly accurate, to say the least. Just as I did last year, I am writing my current column from Faculty Housing at URJ’s Crane Lake Camp in West Stockbridge, […]

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