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Waiting room
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, January 18, 2015 I am sitting in the latest version of the waiting room at the dealership, a place I’ve been many times before in my three decades of Subarus. I’ve taken several leaves of absence. I’ve left happy, I’ve left mad and even vowed never to return. And yet here I…
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Silent Night, Holy Night
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, December 21, 2014 The holidays have crept up from behind swiftly this year, like an army of elves waving alarm clocks in one hand and jingling bells in another, chasing after me. You’re late! Where’s your spirit of the season?I am?? Just moments ago, the aisles were full of bite-sized Snickers! Seems…
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Between rooms 3 and 4
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, December 7, 2014 Dear Mr. Security Guard at MOMA, I really don’t know how you do it, standing in a doorway between two rooms as the hordes mill by, firing off their three questions — Can I take a picture, Where are the restrooms, and Which way to the Matisse cutouts. Sometimes…
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America
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, November 23, 2014 A little boy about five years old peers back from row 30 and looks at me. He’s cute. Big brown eyes, curly black hair, communicating with his expression since he doesn’t have English at his disposal. I smile at him, and he shyly holds my gaze. No trace of…
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Stuff
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, November 9, 2014 It’s 1963 and we’ve started acquiring stuff, antiques mostly, because my father is newly infatuated and obsessed. A Pennsylvania boy by birth, he has unexpectedly made a French girl into a war bride and adopted a new country, replete with mind-blowing food, rich history and beautiful objects (which have…


