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Blog postUpdate: 2020. This is something I wrote in 2005. During the opening ceremonies at the World Series Game 2 in San Francisco in 2003, a giant American flag filled the field, held high by representatives of our armed services. A Marine who had lost both legs and an arm tossed out the first pitch. The looks on the faces of the athletes was hard to misinterpret. They may have spent time on the DL, but looking at this young man standing tall in his uniform put everything in a very different light. So,
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Blog postI did write this, but I don’t remember why exactly. For a class I was taking? It was pre-legalization and pre-dispensaries, so there’s that.
Anyway. Oh, the places you’ll go when you clean out your file drawers. Alpha-Hendrixanol™ (as advertised in AARP Magazine) Developed by the Pheelgood School of Herbal Energetics Wouldn’t you like to turn back the clock and regain the joi de vivre you had in your twenties? What if you could recapture the ability to attend concerts at -
Blog postApril 6th, 2020
Closets and drawers have been weeded through and organized. Small repairs have been made here and there as we continue to shelter in place. After years of dreading the task,it was finally time to get out the big box of photos that had been languishing unsorted for decades, probably. On a day when I was feeling the urge to purge, I started going through the massive piles and files of photos, determined to thin out and discard many of the duplicates, the meaningles -
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On a whim, I recently combed through my bookshelves and gathered together all the print books, anthologies and journals I have contributed to in some way: either as writer/ editor, beta reader, Kickstarter donor or friend. Some authors kindly added my name to the acknowledgements, which came as a pleasant surprise. The book I am holding is the latest addition to these collected works: Dine, published by Hippocampus Books, just released.
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Blog postNu? So It’s Christmas
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Blog postOn this day, the one hundredth anniversary of his birth, here are the thoughts I jotted down to read at his memorial service in 2001.
My dad was a teacher, and like many outstanding teachers, he never took time off from teaching. Sure, there were vacations and summers, but he was always on the job. If no students were around, he always had my sister and me.
I have put together some of his most important lessons into a set of guidelines that I call “Sam Elkind’s Guide to Livin -
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Blog postI read this piece at the Octopus Literary Salon at an event that paired published authors with emerging writers. I wrote it in response to my partner’s piece, which touched on smoking, the wind, being young and making mistakes. I didn’t know right away how to respond, so I looked out the window and listened. My writing space: a back table at the Bandon Library.
The seas are rough today. A nearby foghorn sounds out a short mournful note every couple of minutes or s -
Blog postYes, our mother made us both wear the hamantaschen costumes
It’s April 9th, my sister’s birthday. In what has become an annual tradition–for now anyway–I’m re-posting this edited version.
Five years ago, in 2014, I was out of town at the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop and missed being here for her birthday. So I put together something special to make up for being away, because we always celebrated our birthdays together.
When Susie turned 50, I did a retrospecti -
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Blog postIf they allowed me a playlist for tomorrow, it would have to include these three tunes.
Thanks for all the good wishes from near and far.
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Blog postI did this last year and it helped me see that I had been slightly more productive than I thought. Let’s see what happened this past year in my writing life…
A look back at what I wrote in 2018: A number of pieces for Retrospect, which are listed on my Articles and Interviews page here. This was a wonderful opportunity to reach back and respond to a variety of prompts. All told, I published 32 essays on this website. Sadly, Retrospect is no longer an option for this sort of pe
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Chicken Soup for the Sister's Soul 2: Celebrating Love and Laughter Throughout Our Lives
Aug 14, 2012
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