I’ve been trying to collect a few fine moments from this summer – with the pleasant prospect that August may add to my treasures.
We spent an early June weekend in Chatham, on Cape …
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Mike Fink
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8/5/21
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If there’s one thing I hate, it’s when a broadcaster says, “here’s some Beethoven FOR YA!” It’s that fake friendly intimacy I find condescending and all …
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Mike Fink
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7/1/21
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“Moe” was born in London – in Whitechapel – in 1904. His father had hiked across Europe, a “foot-goer” among a generation of migrating scouts in quest of work …
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Mike Fink
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6/3/21
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In my school days, we had to learn poems by heart and then recite them by rote on the auditorium stage. I remember Ralph Waldo Emerson’s ode to the month of May, “The …
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Mike Fink
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5/9/21
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Here’s hoping that one or more of the customs of Lag B’Omer fit my past, present and planned projects. It’s a holiday known for bonfires and weddings and ... haircuts.
Once upon …
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Mike Fink
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4/9/21
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I first set foot in Israel during its Bar Mitzvah year, and since then, I have identified with the maturity of its status. I wrote about that visit and voyage for the Rhode Island School of …
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Mike Fink
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3/4/21
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Esther Safran Foer has written what she calls a “post-Holocaust memoir,” titled “I Want You to Know We’re Still Here.”
I teach a book that her son Jonathan wrote …
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Mike Fink
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2/5/21
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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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