Category Archives: Childhood

Stalker, Scene 37, Chicken Soup

1986, Portland, Oregon My mother answered my letter.  Yes, she had broached my father with my question:   Would he accept Baby’s marrying a man who wasn’t Jewish?  Even though it went against everything he had been taught?  Even though his Orthodox relatives would reject me, … Continue reading

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Stalker, Scene 12, Assignment 3

Summer of Love, 2009. Assignment 3 from Stalker.  Now that you told me the good parts, tell me the others.  Tell me about sad and stressful things in your childhood. Do I dare?  How far do I go?  Isn’t falling … Continue reading

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Stalker, Scene 10, Assignment 1

Our summer of love, 2009.  Stalker wanted to know everything about me.  I could share those stories that I had hoped,  in my most self-indulgent daydreams, to find an audience for.  ”From your first skinned knee to your first pet, from your first kiss to the last tear that … Continue reading

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