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Summer Evenings

A late summer night is filled with potential. Even as a child you can feel it. There's still time left in the summer. Time to go on adventures, to do all the things you swore you'd do at the beginning of the summer. There will still be sleepovers and parties in the...

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One Across, Two Down

I love a crossword puzzle. I love the blank slate of it and the way you can slowly start to fill in the grids with all the random pieces of knowledge you've accumulated over the years. Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote Cats, which was based on poems by TS Eliot, who was...

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A Life’s Work

My father, a professor and a poet, has dementia. Over the years he must have written dozens of articles and poems. Occasionally for money. Yesterday, he received a royalty check for .78. He obviously has no memory of what the check is for. My mother also has no idea....

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