Monthly Archives: December 2022

#52snapshots 2022 | Week 52–Your Town’s Famous Residents, Ghosts, and Legends

The final prompt of this blog series asks us to write about famous residents, ghosts, and/or legends from our hometown or current town. I actually wrote a book about this, Legendary Locals of Kearny, New Jersey (Arcadia, 2015). I wrote … Continue reading

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Mid-Week Field Notes–December 28, 2022

Some very quick things: Happy New Year! Here’s to a great 2023 for writing!

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#52snapshots 2022 | Week 51–The Color Wheel

The prompt this week asks us to focus on colors: Choose a color, make a list of objects with that color, choose one object to write about. I choose green–and blue–and wrote a poem that involved another person who shares … Continue reading

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Mid-Week Field Notes–December 21, 2022

Some very quick things: Happy Chanukah!

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#52snapshots 2022 | Week 50–Headlines

This week we’re asked to write about the events that shaped our lives, the external events that made headlines. Several come to mind, including the assassinations of President Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. But I also think … Continue reading

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Mid-Week Field Notes–December 14, 2022

Some very quick things: Happy Chanukah!

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#52snapshots 2022 | Week 49–The Great Divide

This week we’re asked when we first discovered that race, class, religion, or some other factors separated people from one another, maybe even ourselves. I wrote about how a neighborhood kid told me I killed Christ when I was four … Continue reading

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Mid-Week Field Notes–December 7, 2022

Some very quick things: Happy Writing!

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Author’s Notebook | My Mother’s Secret: A Novel of the Jewish Autonomous Region by Alina Adams

Alina Adams, My Mother’s Secret: A Novel of the Jewish Autonomous Region. History Through Fiction, November 2022, 353 pp. The Whole Megillah (TWM): What inspired you to write this book?Alina Adams (AA): There is no pretty way to put this: … Continue reading

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#52snapshots 2022 | Week 48–Mystery Date

Maybe you remember the television commercials: “Mystery date, are you ready for a mystery date?” It was a board game in which you opened the door to your mystery date in hopes of it not revealing, “The Dud,” a slovenly … Continue reading

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