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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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My neighbor Amy , who two decades ago purchased the house where my grandparents and aunts and uncles had dwelt, is a great hostess in all seasons, even mid-winter. She has a tree, a Norway …
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Mike Fink
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3/8/20
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“Privilege.” What does it mean?
The help at Frenchman’s Creek – a manicured and gated community in Florida’s Palm Beach – come from such …
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Mike Fink
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2/6/20
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