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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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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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