A Bushel and a Peck by Lisa Brodsky
My Baba’s house smelled like borscht and boiled cabbage for holopchi, traditional dishes from the “old country.” Scents that made me cry...
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Beauty Queens by Cali Haan
East Vancouver, 1987 Ladies and Gentlemen! Mga Binibini at Ginoo! The next contestant —ang susunod na kalahok ay Miss Tisha kumakanta— is...
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Coming Through with the Balloons by Kirsten Wasson
Suffocated by small town life, weary of the frozen tundra of Ithaca, New York winters, I took trips down to Manhattan as often as I...
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Setting Up in Sydney by James Bloom
Living in a seedy youth hostel in Sydney Australia the 1980s, the author visits the labour exchange and finds work making soap and boxes.
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Grimness at The Grand by Auriel Roe
Like my Grandma Manda before she married, I was to be a ‘maid of all work’: chambermaid, dish-washer, kitchen hand and laundress.
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Introducing Fat Tom by Dan Hankner
Fat Tom and I have been friends since the beginning of time.
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Fat in Paris by Bull Garlington
I am a large man. Think of Jack Black if he was the unholy love child of Fred Flintstone and Philip Seymour Hoffman. In America, I blend...
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One For Sorrow by Madeline McEwen
Britain, 1988: In a recession, landing a job, any job, is like winning the Lottery and that’s how I felt when the temping agency rang me....
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Claribel By Deborah Nash Ott
Claribel Nash neé Wiese had been a school-teacher, too. For a time in a one-room schoolhouse near Cumberland, Indiana
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Residence by Katharine Harvey
Some of my Mom’s belongings migrated to the new place and as years passed, I discovered what she left behind.
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Daisy’s House in the Arms of Merlin by Heather Gatley
On a map it resembles the arms and hat of Merlin. It is a place where three rivers pour their hearts into the Irish sea
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Mom's Trump Card by Rick Whitaker
I asked my mom why Butch despised me--was it just because I was gay? No, Mom said, there’s more to it than that
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Floodwater by Deborah Nash Ott
Just before the big flood of 1972 in Rochester, New York, in the wake of Hurricane Agnus, my father moved out of our house for good.
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Sock Monkeys and Dancing Hippos by Brandon Burke
Anyone alive in the 70s will remember stuffed monkeys made from tube socks
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Self Worth through Hard Work at the Vicarage by Auriel Roe
I’d never been to Birmingham before and getting off the train at the dimly-lit subterranean station was not an auspicious start to summer.
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One Word by Keith McGreggor
Michele had grown increasingly disruptive and violent throughout August. Whatever truce we’d achieved with her medication was clearly over.
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Young Man’s Desire: Memories of Boarding School in the '60s and '70s by Rod Madocks
Girls! Feminine giggles and shadowy shapes in the October dusk. There I was in the quadrangle between the library building and the chapel
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Christmas, Elsewhere by Heather Gatley
It was 1963. A blizzard blew across the grass outside the married quarters where we lived in RAF St Athan.
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Inflated Xmas by Liane U'Prichard
It's hard to be convincing about Christmas decorating in Florida even if you're a native.
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