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Eating Crow
I would think that eating other humans might be the ultimate in repulsive food experiences, but no.
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Thanksgiving
Equal parts conflict and comfort, with a pinch of imagination.
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The Beginning, The Middle and The End of 29 1/2
A good mother supports your dream when it’s happening, and helps you close it up when it’s run its course.
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For the Love of a Magazine
Twenty-Five years of The New Yorker with my mom.
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Hot Lunch
The lunch cost sixty-five cents and it was an extra nickel if you wanted the milk.
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A Letter to my (dead) Mother on Mother's Day
Everyone who knows me knows how I worshipped her. Still do, in fact. I was a bit of a case of arrested development in this regard. Like, I'd have moved…
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Erika’s Substack
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This substack shares my occasional and often times whimsical essays/letters — the impressions of a happily aging Gen-Xer.
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