Heirlooms: Revisited, The NY Times published two paragraphs from this essay online on Nov. 22, 2022. From a submission by Meg Kenagy, 76, from Portland, Ore. “We cleaned out our mother’s kitchen, my sisters and I, in fits and starts, when she died 17 years ago. No one else wanted [...]
Today, Christmas breathing down my neck, I am faced with a trip to the department of motor vehicles, a visit to the Costco warehouse store, a pile of packages to mail, and a long shopping list. I know exactly what kind of day is ahead of me. Of course, I [...]
I have carried on for years, buying up titles, in the grand belief that, one day, it might be me in that deck chair. That one day, it might be me, luxuriating in the promised land of Summer Reading.
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