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She was the family beauty, the winner of the prize for being the prettiest girl in her high school graduating class in Montreal. She was the only, lonely child of my mother’s eldest …
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Mike Fink
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1/7/21
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Twelve has always been my lucky number. I was born on the 12th of the 12th, and I live at number 12 in the winter and in my summer cabin as well.
Among the dozen tribes of Israel, I …
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Mike Fink
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12/3/20
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My only survival skill lay in words. I was too myopic to play ball as a boy, with a blind spot that allowed for a blow to my head before I knew what hit me. I could fight back only by being …
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Mike Fink
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11/6/20
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Did you know that a pigeon is a dove and that the word “columbus” means just that in Latin, the bird that makes a cooing, melancholy melody over all the continents and builds …
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Mike Fink
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10/2/20
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It’s time to look backward and forward.
Now, I am one who doesn’t like slogans, but I came across one I did like over the summer.
“Love Where You …
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Mike Fink
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9/3/20
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“Every family has a strange aunt.” I borrowed that phrase from a book titled “Was Elvis Jewish?” by Paulette Cooper, a Holocaust survivor I once knew. I use the phrase as …
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Mike Fink
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8/7/20
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Once upon a time it was tobacco that told your life story. A cigar if you sought success, or found it, even briefly. A pipe for contemplation or peaceful philosophizing in an …
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Mike Fink
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7/3/20
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She lives near me in summertime, along Narrow River in South Kingstown. I would read her name as a board member of Save the Bay and always thought, “I should meet up with Anna ... …
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Mike Fink
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6/5/20
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We Jews have our own May Day holiday, which is celebrated with a bonfire. This Lag B’Omer ritual has a number of interpretations; figure out your own favorite.
Are the …
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Mike Fink
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4/30/20
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“Please call me: I have something to tell you about your cousin Joel.”
came upon this voice mail in my office at the Rhode Island School of Design, which serves as a sociable salon for student conferences, colleague conversations, and, mostly and primarily, the home for my vast collection of memorabilia from past classes, and books, and photographs.
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Mike Fink
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4/5/20
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