Posts Tagged ‘ childhood ’

Thursday Stories: Garbage Pail Kids in the City

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June 11, 2009
Thursday Stories: Garbage Pail Kids in the City

I've been thinking a lot about writing—about how much I want to be doing it, what I might do it about, whether someone somewhere might pay me to do it. Since the theme of this year is "It's no longer the time of sitting around and thinking about doing something," well, welcome to Thursdays...
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It’s My 20th Bat Mitzvahversary

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May 13, 2009
It’s My 20th Bat Mitzvahversary

Twenty years ago today in the suburbs of Albany, NY, wearing a white frilly dress purchased from the store where one must purchase such things in Brooklyn, NY, I sang in public for the last time. As it was quite literally on the occasion of an honest-to-god rite of passage, nobody fell sick as...
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Making Mischief of One Kind and Another

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April 1, 2009
Making Mischief of One Kind and Another

Image via Wikipedia I had two favourite books when I was a young child. One became the seed of my desperate need to see absurdity in every day life (The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, by Dr. Seuss), and the other led me to befriend monsters and explore my imagination without bounds, knowing that...
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