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#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
#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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#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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#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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#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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#52snapshots 2022 | Week 47–Step on a Crack
This week calls for writing about superstitions. Don’t walk under a ladder. Beware the path of the black cat. Don’t step on a crack in the sidewalk or you’ll break your mother’s back. Be careful with praise. I wrote about … Continue reading
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#52snapshots 2022 | Weeks 45 & 46–The Hardest Thing & Failure
I challenged my Writing the Past workshop on these two prompts: What secrets did your family keep and write about a failure. I could say my family never talked about the Holocaust, although my paternal grandmother and my maternal grandfather … Continue reading
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#52snapshots 2022 | Week 44–Reunions, Weddings, and Funerals
This week’s prompt calls for writing about family gatherings. I chose to write about the Krasner family reunion that I organized early in my family history journey. We held it in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, in August 1990. It was … Continue reading
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#52snapshots 2022 | Weeks 42 and 43–The One Who Wronged You and Religious Space
I procrastinated on The One Who Wronged You. I didn’t want to crawl back into the cave. And indeed, writing about the person who I believed wronged me in letter form just got me riled up all over again. My … Continue reading
#52snapshots 2022 | Week 41–Reverse Role Model
Who did you never want to turn into when you got older? I remember the episode of “The Brady Bunch” when Jan hoped she wouldn’t look like her kooky aunt (played by Imogene Coca). When I responded to this prompt, … Continue reading
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