Fern
What to Write?
I could write about the book I’m forcing myself to read maybe I’m in over my head, but suffice to say, it’s not my area of interest, but...
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Fern
- Aug 20
- 1 min
My Wannabee Kimono
I’m wearing it now, the coolest thing to don in 92 degree heat, after a shower I used to call it a kimono, but that was a little high...
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Fern
- May 28
- 3 min
Searching for a Blog
I pushed out of the house this afternoon, sternly commanding myself “Out, out! Go out!” It didn’t matter where, but I needed a change of...
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- Apr 5
- 2 min
Museum Karma
A week ago or so, I was down in Tennessee visiting Glenn and Jenny and my granddogs, Rocket and Hank. Although I brought the darn snow...
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Fern
- Jan 7
- 2 min
Sealed for Protection
The Chap Stick package of three tubes was sealed thoroughly; clear plastic glued against cardboard (or as they say in retail,...
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Fern
- Nov 30, 2021
- 2 min
A Proustian Moment
Whenever I eat coffee yogurt I think of Nancy Guglielmo. Her desk was situated across the aisle from mine, and I can still see her long...
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Fern
- Sep 19, 2021
- 3 min
Chewing Lips on the CBE
Flashback Memory from March 2018 Long Islanders have commuter nerves of steel. Upstaters like me, not so much. A wall of eighteen...
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Fern
- Aug 28, 2021
- 4 min
Confession Time
The Setting: Julie’s Sweet Shop, College Point, NY Situated a few blocks from St. Agnes High School. The Time: 1965 It was an after...
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Fern
- Jul 20, 2021
- 2 min
Cars and Trucks and Things that Drive Me Crazy
When my son was little, Richard Scarry’s “Cars and Trucks and Things that Go” was his favorite book and bedtime was often a wild ride...
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Fern
- Jun 22, 2021
- 3 min
Redux and Rant
My May 5th blog, Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow, apparently experienced a major snafu, and most of you never received it. No worries, just...
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Fern
- May 9, 2021
- 3 min
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
It’s nothing I didn’t expect. Uh, oh, double negative. I expected it, yes I did. The paperwork given before commencing chemo treatments...
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Fern
- Apr 5, 2021
- 2 min
The Three W's
It didn't take long, after I emerged from my surgical stupor, to understand that the three W's were considered to be of primo concern to...
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Fern
- Mar 13, 2021
- 1 min
Wearin' of the Green
Wednesday, March 17th is St. Patrick's Day and one of my favorite Holidays (the other one being Halloween.) Each year, my memories trail...
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Fern
- Feb 2, 2021
- 2 min
Fragrant Flashbacks
Scents go straight to the brain's smell center, known as the olfactory bulb. The olfactory bulb is connected to the amygdala and...
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Fern
- Dec 4, 2020
- 3 min
Bench Sitting
I sat on a wooden bench yesterday outside the Woodstock Library, a bench set upon the wide expanse of green lawn, directly opposite a...
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Fern
- Nov 10, 2020
- 3 min
Hooked on BBS
I have a confession. In the past month I’ve become hooked on The Great British Baking Show. I know, I know, there’s a ton of cooking...
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Fern
- Oct 28, 2020
- 2 min
Oiche Shamhna
(Ee-ha How-na-hunna-ghweev, pronounced in Gaelic) Or, as we say here in the U.S. - Happy Halloween! Halloween, a time for spooky costumes...
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Fern
- Sep 24, 2020
- 2 min
To Bead or not to Bead
(Adornment During a Pandemic) A self-styled routine had been established for ‘decktails’ at each other’s houses every couple of weeks. In...
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Fern
- Aug 26, 2020
- 4 min
Blood on the Tracks
On a Saturday morning, in the Summer of 1992, I walked down Tinker Street to the Woodstock Library to check out the Book Sale in the...
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