“I love telling a good story.”

-Meredith Resnick

Formidable Tante Esthère
from The Complete Book of Aunts

I didn't know the word as a child, but intimidated was what I felt around Aunt Esther. She was a world traveler, and sometimes she'd even come all the way from Manhattan on the diesel train to stay the weekends with us in Yonkers...
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We Didn't Need the Past–Or So I Thought
from Newsweek

Last year my husband and I were in St. Petersburg, Russia, meeting the family who had given up our daughters for adoption. I didn't want to go. I didn't want my daughters to go either...
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Mama Is a Four-Letter Word
from Santa Monica Review

August was hot, the air conditioner droned, and my mother burrowed beneath the blankets of her four-poster bed. Tiny aisles of carpet led to the bathrooom and kitchen, where she wobbled back and forth, using thee packing cartons as handrails...
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