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The Same Woman (Margot)
Throughout his life, Andrew meets women who are immediately familiar to him, though he has never seen them before. He met the first when he was a little boy in 1955, the second in 1962, the third in...
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The Same Woman (Donna)
Every so often in his life, Andrew meets a woman he feels he already knows, though he has never met her before. The first time this happened was in 1955 when he was six-years-old, the second time in...
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The Same Woman (Maru)
Now and then over the course of his life, Andrew encounters a woman he feels he already knows, though he has never met her before. The first time was in 1955 when he was six-years-old, second time...
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The Same Woman (Helen)
Every so often in his life, Andrew meets a woman he recognizes as someone he has known forever, though he has never seen her before. The first time this happened was in 1955 when Andrew was...
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The Same Woman (Sakura)
2018. Andrew and his wife Luisa are both seventy, their birthdays a few weeks apart. They are in good health, Andrew descended from Ashkenazi Jews, Luisa from Chippewa Quebecois Afro-Cubans. Their...
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The Same Woman (Donna Again)
October 2021. Andrew is seventy-three and a widower now for two and a half months. Having eaten little since Luisa’s death, he is thinner than he has ever been, his gray hair full of white. He sits on...
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Little Movies Reviews
My book of short stories Little Movies came out just as we began to shelter-in-place in mid-March of 2020. I didn’t plan to bring out a book simultaneously with the coming of a pandemic, but that’s...
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Zemel and the Pope
Several hundred years ago, when the Vatican was a powerful city state and the Pope commanded a great army, Jews escaping trouble in Europe and the Middle East settled on the outskirts of the Vatican,...
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The Rico Chronicles: First Sighting
Rico at Fourteen with his father photo courtesy of Steve Rees My great friend Rico Rees, AKA Richard Rees, died recently at the age of sixty-eight. To celebrate Rico’s life, I will be posting a series...
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The Rico Chronicles: Bye Bye Birdie
Joe Tiffany and Rico in Bye Bye Birdie 1966 My great friend Rico Rees, AKA Richard Rees, died recently at the age of sixty-eight. To celebrate Rico and the myriad ways our lives intersected over the...
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The Rico Chronicles: 1966
Guild Theatre, Menlo Park circa 1967 This is the third in a series of articles commemorating my friend Rico Rees, AKA Richard Rees. ∆ March 1966. Menlo Park, California About the time Rico and I...
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The Rico Chronicles: Inside Psychodrama
Rico with his daughters Rachel and Sarah circa 1990 photo courtesy of Steve Rees This is the fourth and final article in a series commemorating my friend Rico Rees, AKA Richard Rees. ∆ February 1967....
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our farewell visit
This was my last conversation with Vito before he and his parents left Mendocino for their new life in Switzerland. Vito: Todd, I want to tell you something about my mind. Every second I remember...
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Skunk Holler Prune Plum Jam
Prune plum blossoms When we took possession of our house at the end of the pavement on Cummings Lane eight years ago, our eight apples trees and one plum tree were in desperate need of pruning and...
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Foggy Beach Dog
Probably wouldn’t have gotten out of bed so early today because it was foggy and cold, but I’d arranged to meet Sally and Molly on Big River Beach for a walk and flinging the ball and so forth before...
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Lemon Trees Very Pretty
honey bee on lemon blossom Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet When we moved into our house eight years ago, I wanted to have two lemon trees growing near the house so they would be...
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September Fires
wood shed door Yes, it does feel somewhat odd to be building fires in the woodstove in early September when much of California is literally on fire and inland temperatures are over 100 degrees. But...
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Lizard Song and Smoke
rose in smoky light Max wrote: I had a very productive morning working on my book about lizards only to wake and find it was but a dream. I wrote back: I’ve always liked lizards. I always feel lucky...
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Course of Life
Buddha’s Buddha Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can go when things have got about as bad as they can reasonably get. Tom Stoppard I take comfort in knowing that for all but...
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What To Be
When we were children in the 1950s and 60s, adults would often ask us, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I don’t recall any adults asking me what I’d been doing lately or how I was feeling....
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