Tag Archives: Brooklyn

Company!

Posted on August 19, 2014 by onesanevoice

Husband and I have a little condo upstate that takes about three hours to get to considering traffic, a coffee stop, bathroom break, etc.  We bought the place in 2003 when my parents and grandmother were dying all at the … Continue reading →

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Alias The Jackal

Posted on August 12, 2014 by onesanevoice

It’s been a quiet summer.  Aside from trying to ignore a new dog down the block that barks round the clock, babysitting my six month old grandson whenever I can, and recovering from Daughter moving to India (more on that another … Continue reading →

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Choice Sophie

Posted on July 16, 2012 by onesanevoice

Our family’s past, present and future converged on Saturday in Brooklyn.  As we walked from Aunt Sophie’s Avenue P apartment to the Chinese restaurant on Bay Parkway, I looked with delight at the company that surrounded me.  There was Daughter … Continue reading →

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The Simple Rules

Posted on July 8, 2010 by onesanevoice

According to a recent Pew research poll, 53% of American adults google each other.  This is not surprising news.  The ferocity with which the average citizen privately researches those they know, want to know, or don’t want to know is … Continue reading →

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Zip it

Posted on February 27, 2010 by onesanevoice

I read Husband a story this morning from the paper that cemented the end of another era in my memory, that of the doctor who makes house calls.  The piece was about the passing of an 84-year-old area physician who … Continue reading →

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Familiar strangers revisited

Posted on February 11, 2010 by onesanevoice

I’m sick with something miserable this week so please accept a reprint of an entry that ran in the winter of 2007.  Daughter’s pictures are new, but the entry and the memory it recalls are gently used. Today as I … Continue reading →

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The Real 007

Posted on December 12, 2009 by onesanevoice

I don’t know why this one particular obituary in the newspaper caught my eye.  I’m not a big obituary reader.  Maybe it was the letters FBI in the heading.  Maybe it was the smiling older gentleman with the bushy white … Continue reading →

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Men of the World

Posted on October 13, 2009 by onesanevoice

I love it when little kids get you so good you remember it years later.  I feel very lucky to still know the young adults who were once the small children my kids played with.  Not only are they still … Continue reading →

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As the fur flies

Posted on October 9, 2009 by onesanevoice

I am mad allergic to cats.  If you’re a regular here, you probably already know that.  I once told a relatively offensive anecdote about Husband being lucky his cat died shortly before I met him or else he’d have had … Continue reading →

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Last ring of the bell

Posted on October 5, 2009 by onesanevoice

The Beach Boys sang “Be true to your school, just like you would to your girl or guy, be true to your school,” in the song titled – hold on – Be True to Your School.  Those lyrics crossed my … Continue reading →

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