You can still order STORIED STUFF, the first paperback collection of Storied Stuff essays and pix. All proceeds go to assist not for profits. Volume 2 is scheduled for October publication. Stay tuned. Congrats to the winners of our Second Annual Writing Contest. First place: Gabi Coatsworth. Runners-up: Judy Iacuzzi, Lisa D’Angelo, and Gabrielle Gresge.

Nell Minow Nell Minow

Nell Minow

My mother, Josephine Baskin Minow, collected antiques…

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Mark Smith Mark Smith

Mark Smith

My grandfather was a tailor who emigrated from Germany…

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Bobbie Calhoun Bobbie Calhoun

Bobbie Calhoun

Whenever my mother, an irascible Brooklynite, would get a hankering…

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Liza Blue Liza Blue

Liza Blue

One of the unexpected privileges of this pandemic…

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Holly Sider Smith Holly Sider Smith

Holly Sider Smith

In 1959 I was in the first grade at College Hill Elementary School…

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Susan MacNeil Susan MacNeil

Susan MacNeil

Royal Children of English History was published in 1896….

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Carol Kanter Carol Kanter

Carol Kanter

Engaged at 22, my education had not prepared me to “keep house....”

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Jim Dorr Jim Dorr

Jim Dorr

When I was eight, I devoured every adventure book about animals I could find....

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