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A Case of the Human Condition: Respect for Our Undeserving Elders

“Move,” said my 6-year-old son Peter to his grandmother. “I want to get by.” My mother looked up from her book and gave my son a hard look.

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The Writing Room: And My (Serious) Case of the Human Condition

Driving home the other day from just one of countless visits to my mom at the hospital, I had to ask myself , why aren’t I writing about her?

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A Case of the Human Condition: Reading, Writing — And Yucky

Little Max is off to kindergarten for his first taste of the real world. What will he learn? “Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg . . .”

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A Case of the Human Condition: Wait for Me!

I was a tiny preschooler, pumping away on my tricycle, near tears because the big kids were leaving me behind. Today, I was a lot older — and left in the dust again.

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A Case of the Human Condition: The Trouble With Daffodils

The trouble with daffodils is they have no subtext. They are all cheer and sparkle and optimism. They are avatars of perky. They get on my nerves.

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