Current Essays

By: Nancy Wallace, 12/15/2020

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Downsizing – What to Toss, What to Keep Sept. 2, 2020

Moving into a Continuing Care Community is unlike all the previous residential moves I’ve made. I began my adult life in a small one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan, eventually graduated to a two-bedroom in New Jer...[Read More]

A Stolen Run

By: Ann McCreedy, 10/01/2020

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Rolling out of bed and moving quickly toward the desk, she turns off the five-dollar alarm clock. She pauses to listen. After a moment she exhales affirmed that the alarm has awoken only her. She picks up the clothes she optimistically laid out the night before. Had it been a rough night,...[Read More]

Yogaland Blues

By: judith cohen, 10/15/2020

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Yogaland Blues
Judith Beth Cohen Markanjudy@msn.com
325 wc
Trying to meditate in the frozen pre-dawn darkness, I wondered why I’d come here. Days into this intensive yoga retreat, I was miserable. The ocean-side setting might be lovely but it felt like a military boot ca...[Read More]

Beautiful Hands

By: Katy Shea, 11/15/2020

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When we hear the expression “beautiful hands”, we may immediately visualize a pair of hands from a nail polish ad in a magazine- perfectly manicured nails, slender fingers; and a smooth and flawless skin tone. Although these airbrushed hands are pleasing to our eyes, the true beauty of o...[Read More]

I Kinda Get Smoking Now

By: Brynn Brichet, 08/30/2020

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I’d always been a buzzkill when it came to my friends or family members smoking cigarettes (except when I’d tried it myself, of course). “Why do it? This is crazy! You’re killing yourselves! You smell terrible!” But now, during this time of quarantine, while juggling conference calls and...[Read More]

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