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.

Barbara Walter Hetler

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Barbara Walter Hetler

Christmas 1967.

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Jenny Klein

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Jenny Klein

I have delightful childhood memories of Christmas.

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Mary Loretta Kelly

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Mary Loretta Kelly

Mother and I were not crafters.

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Sharon Fiffer

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Sharon Fiffer

Emory Schmidt was my paternal grandfather.

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Wendy McPhee

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Wendy McPhee

When I was 10 in 1956…

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Jean Diamond

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Jean Diamond

I inherited this ornament when my mom died

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Francie Arenson Dickman

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Francie Arenson Dickman

My grandmother was lazy.

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Valerie Lewis

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Valerie Lewis

I am an immigrant.

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Larry Cohan

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Larry Cohan

This month marks the 49th year…

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Leslie Richmond Simmons

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Leslie Richmond Simmons

Fifty-one weeks of the year…

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Hilary (aka Pinky) Rose

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Hilary (aka Pinky) Rose

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Ella Weigel

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Ella Weigel

My grandmother wore a fur coat…

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Fredricka R. Maister

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Fredricka R. Maister

Remember “Suicide Is Painless,”

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Mickey Pierce Silverstein

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Mickey Pierce Silverstein

“Wasn’t that a great movie?”

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Lee Rubenstein

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Lee Rubenstein

I took up painting in 2014…

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Naomi Gladish Smith

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Naomi Gladish Smith

The genial man in the hospital bed…

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Robert Tomes

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Robert Tomes

When I was a little kid, I loved to draw and color…

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Lisa Ann Williams

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Lisa Ann Williams

Through a painful divorce, I hung this on our bathroom door knob…

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Lynn Shapiro

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Lynn Shapiro

My earliest memory of Thanksgiving was at Grandma Gelman’s apartment…

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Kendra Morrill

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Kendra Morrill

A few months after my grandmother died…

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