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Mirinda Kossoff's memoir, "The Rope of Life: A Memoir," delves into her journey of understanding her father's complex identity and the impact it had on her life. The book explores themes of identity, belonging, and the struggle to reconcile heritage with personal experience. Kossoff skillfully navigates her father's transformation from a Jewish man to a Southern Baptist in..
Mirinda Writes
1M ago
Science fiction has not been my favorite genre, though I have appreciated a few well-done movies and Isaac Asimov’s books like I, Robot. Netflix’s Three-Body Problem series is renewing my appreciation of science fiction ..read more
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1M ago
My betrayal of a body has endured multiple surgeries to repair/replace knees, feet, neck, eyes, and excise two different cancers. My back has been a mess for thirty years. Setting off alarms at airport security is my spe ..read more
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3M ago
During my nearly twenty-five years of being single, between husbands, I fed my appetite for travel, even if I had to go alone. Fear of what might happen as a woman traveling solo was never part of the equation, so I had ..read more
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3M ago
Anne Frank wrote: What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews. While true, something even stronger seems to be the case: the actions of no Jew are thrown back at all Je ..read more
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4M ago
When I left Danville, Virginia, for college in 1966, I told my parents I loved them but not to expect me to return, except for visits. A year after graduating, I put 6,000 miles between me and Danville, working for the R ..read more
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4M ago
“Fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time ..read more
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4M ago
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and we celebrate survivors with pink ribbons and races for the cure ..read more
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4M ago
My longest friendships with my two best friends ended when they died within a month of each other. One death was expected, the other shocking. I spoke to each of them the day before they died. My essay about their loss h ..read more
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4M ago
Travel has been my passion since I was six and watched Shirley Temple in Heidi, a movie about a little Swiss girl who engages her grumpy survivalist grandfather in the way only dimpled Shirley Temple can. Set in Swiss al ..read more
Mirinda Writes
4M ago
Lately, I have seen a rash of articles from such publications as Cosmopolitan, Psychology Today, and The Atlantic about adult children ditching their parents and cutting off communications. The surge in this behavior is ..read more