Cheers
January 31, 2012
On one of our evening phone calls, I told Alice I was going to bring her a surprise. When I got to her apartment the next day in the company of my old friend, Gordon, she had written out a list of guesses as to what her surprise might be: Read the rest of this entry »
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Update: Celia and Mr. Fickle
January 29, 2012
Since the report on big changes in the well-being of both Celia and Mr. Fickle in the Winter Stars post, several readers have written me to ask for an update. Read the rest of this entry »
Marla
January 22, 2012
Alice and I have been missing my sister Marla today. She would have been sixty. We would have had a cake.
Here she is at six:
Marla
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Winter Stars
January 16, 2012
Two weeks ago, Celia saw Mr. Fickle emerge from his apartment and dance down the hall to the drinking fountain. A few days later, Alice spotted him dancing along the sidewalk outside her window. Read the rest of this entry »
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Baby Needs a Shirt
January 10, 2012
Alice has a collection of unusual expressions. Most of them came from her mother and her grandmother, and so they’ve traveled down from the nineteenth century.
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Elderly Animals
January 7, 2012
Filmmakers Mark and Angela Walley made a very short film about Isa Leshko, a photographer whose most recent work has focused on elderly animals.
A Cup of Kindness
January 3, 2012
On New Year’s Eve, Alice had no idea she’d be decked out in a party hat and feather boas.
