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Post-op

January 26, 2022

It has been seven years since I had major surgery after a long illness, surgery that put me on a path to healing. Usually on this anniversary I re-share certain […]

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Eating a tomato sandwich in October

October 31, 2021
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My father grows the best tomatoes. Every year, during what New Englanders can still quaintly call “harvest time”, that time when we race the calendar to make the most of […]

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Stubbornness and grace

October 11, 2021
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“Margaret, I didn’t know you were a runner.” “Oh, I’m not, not really” I said this the day after running my 19th half-marathon, and immediately sensed how ridiculous I sounded. […]

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Of Streets at Night

June 23, 2021
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streetlights

Memory holds on to such funny little details: the hat I lost at a bar on Arlington St. The ride down the grad-school elevator on Friday afternoons to meet friends. […]

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Women in Bright Colors

January 22, 2021
Kamala Harris at her inauguration

Being dismissed never stops being shocking. Despite experience, expertise and passion in a few different areas, there are still plenty of times that colleagues and acquaintances see me – someone […]

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