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Ten and Twelve Years Old
On New Year’s Day this year at around 9:30 in the morning, my husband and I were sitting in the…
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Things That Disappear
The pale yellow “favorite blanket” that you had as a child. The hair dryer that covered your head like a…
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Do Not Ask Why the Sea Has Forsaken You
It was a rough five days on and under the seas last week. On June 14th, an overloaded fishing boat…
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Blue Skies
In the mid-nineteen-nineties, I lived for a summer on Deer Isle, Maine. It was a pretty typical Maine summer. Foggy…
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Military Service? Impossible!
When I taught English in Russia in the late 1990’s, my main place of employment was the Tolyatti Pedagogical Institute,…
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Devon is Dry
The rains came after a week of heat. Finally. Thank God. Prior to their arrival it was baking and Devon,…
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My Cousin in California
On November 9th, two weeks after my cousin in Pittsburgh, in her post-shooting gloom, bowed out of all social media,…
![My Cousin in Pittsburgh](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Cathedral-of-Learning-150x150.jpg)
My Cousin in Pittsburgh
On October 29th, two days after a gunman burst into a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pa. and shot eleven people dead,…
![Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/191_1pants_on_fire_version_2-150x150.jpg)
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire
If you’d asked me before the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings how I felt about them, I’d probably have told you I…
![Hot, Hot, Hot](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/drought-crop-field-uk-e1444387912431-150x150.jpg)
Hot, Hot, Hot
You knew it before you got there, knew it if you’re one of those people who checks weather.com before you…
![Fathers, Sheisters, and Other New Yorkers Who Shall Not Remain Blameless](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/new-york-city-150x150.jpg)
Fathers, Sheisters, and Other New Yorkers Who Shall Not Remain Blameless
A look at the calendar tells me that Father’s Day is here again. Father’s Day these days, other than being…
![The Future is Now](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/flashgordon-150x150.jpg)
The Future is Now
If you’d asked me a few years ago, only a few, whether or not I ever read dystopian fiction, I…
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Merit Pay, Anyone?
I wasn’t going to weigh in on this because, well, everyone else has, and what am I going to say…
![Gina](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/lily.jpg)
Gina
Rainer Maria Rilke was an Austro-Hungarian writer who was born, wrote, and died a long time ago. He was most…
![Wallis, This One's for You](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Wallis-Simpson-150x150.jpg)
Wallis, This One’s for You
Finally, some good news for a change. Amidst the debacle of “tax reform” and what appears to be rampant sexual…
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The End of the World
In the nearly twenty years I’ve been teaching in the US public schools, I’ve had quite a few kids walk…
![Spread the Word](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/panda-150x150.jpg)
Spread the Word
Venice is a city of illusions: illusions of water and light, of time and space, of stillness and movement. Looking…
![Persistence](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/zipped-mouth-150x150.jpg)
Persistence
In our elementary school, we start teaching children about character traits in the third grade. We teach them to recognize…
![To The Barricade](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Trump-Barricade-150x150.jpg)
To The Barricade
I never marched in a demonstration before yesterday. I don’t like crowds much, or noise, or commotion. I’m a stay-at-home-with-a-book…
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2017: Brace For Impact
At the beginning of the Second World War in Europe, there was a period of time, eight months and one…
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Election Week 2016
Last week didn’t begin well. On Monday afternoon, we had to hospitalize our cat, Socrates. He’d been battling pancreatitis at…
![Where You Can Put Your Putin](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Vladimir-Putin-150x150.jpg)
Where You Can Put Your Putin
No one could love Russia more than I do. You have to love a country where the cabbie taking you home…
![A Little History](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/stick-figure-of-little-girl-150x150.jpg)
A Little History
They say if you don’t know your history, you’re doomed to repeat it and this certainly seems to be what’s…
![A Cruel June](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Welcome-to-Florida-150x126.jpg)
A Cruel June
It goes on. Last Sunday morning we woke up to read about yet another mentally ill individual who went out…
![Lists](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/doomsday-book-150x150.jpg)
Lists
As another year draws to its close and the next one edges near, there seems to be in both the…
![Living in America](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Newtown-150x150.jpg)
Living in America
There are many things I could write about as the dark and confusing year of 2015 draws to its close,…
![The Long Walk Across Europe](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/backpacker-1477833-1280x960-150x150.jpg)
The Long Walk Across Europe
In December of 1933, a young man set out from England on a great adventure. His intention was to walk…
![Living in America](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Newtown-150x150.jpg)
Living in America
There have been days since my father and mother passed away three-and-a-half years and a year ago respectively when the…
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September 11th
And so another anniversary of the September 11th bombing of the World Trade Center has come and gone replete with…
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Spanish Flames
As if they needed anything else to go wrong, the country of Spain has this last week been battling yet…
![The Pip Squeak Sikh](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/sikh-child-150x145.jpg)
The Pip Squeak Sikh
Several years ago, on the first day of school, a young child was delivered by their mother to the class…