A neighbor, an “aunt,” a second cousin, a friend, a companion: Who, and what, to me, was Edith?
She lived on my street, uphill at a corner, and was related to me on both my …
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Mike Fink
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5/6/22
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“Was Elvis Jewish?” is the title of a new book of fun facts by an amazing author named Paulette Cooper. I met her decades ago, when she was a senior at Brandeis University, at a soiree on …
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Mike Fink
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1/5/17
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I was born in the month of Sagittarius: I am a centaur, half horse, half archer, aiming high.
I get the horse half from my mom, Betty C. Fink: she loved to draw and sculpt equine …
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Mike Fink
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12/9/19
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I took my aunt Edith pretty much for granted while she lived just a few houses uphill from ours. We both eventually inherited our family homesteads and stayed put there. When I was but a boy, Edith would babysit me. Throughout the war years, she …
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Mike Fink
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1/30/14
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I earned a laugh long ago when I made the following kvetch to my “boss,” the head of my department at the Rhode Island School of Design: “All seasons are depressing, each for a …
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Mike Fink
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8/5/22
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I’m not a rabbi, but I AM a “minister.” She sent me a legal document that declares I can perform a proper marriage ceremony – my alumna, who met a boy in Rome and brought him to her nice little cul-de-sac in Brooklyn. (The home purchased …
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Mike Fink
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1/22/16
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“These precious days”: Remember those lyrics to the popular old song sung by Walter Huston? It seems right as I report on the past and our hopes for the new year.
We got down to …
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Mike Fink
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9/11/22
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She was a delicate beauty, a refined refugee from the rise of Nazism who took flight to stardom in the dreamland over the rainbow: Hollywood, USA. Luise Rainer played poignant variations on the theme of her own early life: the loss of, and …
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Mike Fink
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1/30/15
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I like unpopular movies. “Woman in Gold” kept me deeply interested despite, or because of, its negative reviews. Helen Mirren did a superb job of portraying inner turmoil. The camera gave the viewer plenty to think about, not just …
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Mike Fink
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5/7/15
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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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