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Back in the early spring, I took a train ride up to New York to visit my cousin Nancy—someone I don’t see often enough now

On a breezy autumn afternoon, I was clearing out my garage—reminiscing over old photo albums with my husband—when a childhood memory hit me like the

One day of autumns ago, I struck up a chat with an older gentleman sitting beside me at a community center lunch. We were both

Dinner on Sunday evening tends to follow a rhythm in my household warm, we can gather around, and always invites second helpings. Last weekend, we

While visiting my cousin Evelyn in Pennsylvania, we stopped by a small Italian-American church fair. There was a food stall run by a group of

I once met a boy named Jacob who spent every summer afternoon sitting on his grandmother’s back porch, balancing a tattered sketchbook on his knees