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During her many years as an outdoors columnist in the '80s and '90s, Evelyn Klahre Anderson spoke to political figures, Broadway stars, famous scientists, astronauts, recording artists, network newsmen, environmentalists, comedians, and even former presidents and their wives in her quest to learn the impact that plants and flowers had on the lives of these larger than life personalities.
Steve Reeves Legends Never Die by Deborah Reeves Stewart
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This book is about my life with Steve ("Hercules") Reeves, during the last seven years of his life. It is written from the perspective of a woman who was (and will always be) deeply, madly in love with Steve Reeves, the incomparable, world class bodybuilder, larger-than-life actor and last, but not least, rancher, horse breeder and author. Dozens of heretofore unpublished pictures included
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Mallette posted a video of the performance on YouTube for their family and friends to see. She continued to upload videos of Bieber singing covers of various R&B songs, and Bieber's popularity on the site grew.
Miley Cyrus - Disney to Scandals by Suzan Ibryam
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 123,970. Language: English. Published: August 13, 2014. Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » Celebrity biography
On July 22, 2008, Cyrus released her second studio album Breakout, which she said was inspired by "what's been going on in my life in the past year."
Frank Sidebottom - Out of His Head by Mick Middles
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The true story of the character that inspired the movie 'Frank', 'Out of His Head' is the authorised biography of the late Chris Sievey, whose life was considerably stranger than fiction.
Firelight of a Different Colour: The Life and Times of Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing by Nigel Collett
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When Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing threw himself to his death from the terrace of Hong Kong's Mandarin Oriental Hotel in 2003, he was the greatest star of his generation in the city. At the forefront of almost all the cultural changes Hong Kong saw during his lifetime, Leslie came to embody the unique spirit of the city. Firelight of a Different Colour commemorates a life that continues to inspire.
Marilyn Monroe & Joe DiMaggio - Love In Japan, Korea & Beyond by Jennifer Jean Miller
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The story of Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio is a timeless tale -- two legends with extraordinary careers in their individual fields and remarkable existences. This book chronicles each of their lives from the days before they met, until their paths finally crossed, their nine month marriage, the love after their marriage, and the love he held for her beyond her life and until the end of his.
Nelson Mandela - A Man First by Anne Marie du Preez Bezdrob
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Nelson Mandela, the most famous prisoner of the 20th century, was a tribal prince, the leader of the African National Congress, the commander-in-chief of a rebel army, and a head of state. But he was, first and foremost, a man. This intimate, in-depth biography traces his life from the rural Transkei to the capitals of the world, revealing the heart-stopping danger of his life as the famous 'Blac
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I came to this book as a hostile critic. I'd said I would review it and felt I ought to do so, but what do I care for a book by a black, English, kick-boxing champion who has spent time in prison. Now I care. It is a significant, thought provoking and entertaining piece of literature, potentially life changing and not far from masterpiece. Jeff Hunt – Humanist Society of New Zealand
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Welcome to the MI-SERA Website
Pension Matters
Capitol News
Chair Talk
"Salute to Seniors and Veterans" was held in Shelby Township. Hantz representatives flanking the SERA banner are: Derek Veginski, Brian Laurain, Alesha Briley and Margaret Zangara. About a dozen membership applications were received at the event.
Interagency Memorandum of Understanding: Retiree Insurance Benefits
Class Action Against State of Michigan: Taxation of State Pensions (Okrie vs State of Michigan)
See all updates and background.
Latest Update: April 29, 2016
Even though I have not posted an update for some time, I have sought to publicize the importance of this lawsuit in the interim, sending letters to the presidential campaigns and newspapers before the Michigan primary election to inform them about this lawsuit. The following is a composite version of these letters:
". . . I am also writing to bring to your attention to a governmental heist engineered by Governor Snyder that makes the takings from the "Great Train Robbery" look like spare change. It involves a $1+ billion (and counting) income transfer from the pockets of retired state and public school employees born after 1945 so that 86,000 businesses and corporations in Michigan do not have to pay any taxes at all. The heist is simple in design, yet needs to be explained:
For decades, the public pensions of retired state and public school employees in Michigan, as in a few other states, were exempt from state and local taxation. The tax exemptions promised to state and public school employees were used as economic inducements to attract and retain qualified individuals to work for the State of Michigan and its political subdivisions at lower salaries and pension benefits, and constituted an integral part of their overall retirement benefits. In effect, the tax exemptions represented deferred compensation that was earned by retired state and public school employees for their years of governmental service after vesting in one of the state's defined benefit plans, retiring and thereafter residing in Michigan and paying state taxes on their other income and assets.
That, however, changed with the entry in force of 2011 PA 38 on January 1, 2012, when the Michigan Legislature and Governor Snyder eliminated the tax exemptions as to retired state and public school employees born after 1945 (but not those born before 1946) in order to pay for a massive tax break for corporations and businesses, including 86,000 that now pay no taxes at all. Such an action perfectly illustrates how government produces income inequality in America: taking money from the pockets of ordinary people and giving it to businesses and corporations. It is a pretty simple magic legal trick that shows how governmental policy concentrates economic power in the wealthy and already powerful so that their interests are protected to the detriment of the public.
In response, I filed a class-action lawsuit in July 2013 on behalf of Mr. Thomas R. Okrie, a retired public school teacher, and similarly situated retired state and public school employees (100,000+), challenging the State of Michigan's action of taking away their deferred compensation in the form of tax exemptions without providing comparable financial benefits to them. In short, a breach of contract under state law, or an impairment of contract and "Takings" in violation of the state and federal constitutions.
The case is now pending appeal in the Michigan Court of Appeals. Okrie et al. v State of Michigan, COA No. 326607. (For information about the lawsuit, see my website, www.michigan-appeal-attorney.com under the heading "Class Action Law Suit: Okrie v State of Michigan, including the posting of my briefs and a Chronicle of the Lawsuit. For any questions about it, you can call me directly).
Notwithstanding its importance, this case has been on a media blacklist in Michigan almost from the beginning, despite my efforts and the efforts of the State Employees Retirement Association (SERA) and others to get some publicity so that the general public is at least made aware of the issues presented in the class-action lawsuit. In effect, 100,000+ people in Michigan with real grievances have been given the silent treatment, falling into a media black hole in the same way as Flint residents were brushed off in 2014 and 2015 when they complained about lead-poisoned water. For that reason,
I respectfully ask you and your representatives in Michigan to do whatever you can to bring public attention to this class-action lawsuit when you are in Michigan. It is another Exhibit A of Income Inequality in America. My thanks in advance for whatever help that you can give us.
As always, I would like to thank everyone for their support of this cause and your financial help in sustaining the effort on appeal in the Michigan appellate courts, and if necessary, the U.S. Supreme Court. It needs to be reiterated that financial support is necessary to enable me to spend the time and effort to counter the State's "false narrative" that distorts our actual claims and arguments and to make the public in Michigan and elsewhere aware that, at the bottom line, this case represents an illegal income transfer of more than $1 billion (and counting) from retired middle income people to corporations and businesses. As always, donations in any amount are greatly appreciated and needed, especially given the magnitude of this case and forces arrayed against us. My thanks in advance.
Gary P. Supanich
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SERA is committed to providing exceptional value to its members by delivering quality financial products and services to our members through our SERA Plus program. Consistent with our philosophy, we are pleased to announce that financial planning, investment, insurance (including auto, home and liability), tax planning, estate planning advice, and banking services will soon be offered exclusively through our new relationship with Hantz Group, Inc., and its affiliates (together, "Hantz"), headquartered at 26200 American Drive, Southfield, Michigan 48034.
Our decision to offer financial planning, investment, insurance, tax planning, estate planning advice, and banking services through Hantz allows us to provide you with a variety of financial services under one roof. Hantz Group, along with its affiliates, Hantz Tax & Business, LLC, Hantz Agency LLC and Hantz Bank, to name a few, provides a comprehensive approach to your specific financial service and banking needs. Hantz will offer and provide its services through its 21 locations conveniently located near most of our chapters throughout Michigan.
For more information on Hantz, including locations, please visit www.hantzgroup.com or contact our SERA Plus program administrator, Cheryl Streberger at 517-515-9815, or your SERA Chapter Liason.
About Michigan SERA
SERA is an non-profit organization devoted exclusively to issues and concerns of all current and future retirees of the State of Michigan.
SERA works to:
SERA works through its members, leaders, and committees to promote the best interests of state employee retirees and future retirees. At least eight times since 1974, SERA was a moving force in pension increases or benefit improvements. In 2011, we opposed the pension tax and helped eliminate it for 70% of retirees; we opposed the remaining tax on public pensions for those born after 1945 in the Michigan Supreme Court. We opposed the recent state employee retirement system changes. That work continues.
SERA has 21 local chapters statewide that are linked through the Coordinating Council of the State Employee Retirees Associations of Michigan (the SERA Coordinating Council). SERA chapters have periodic meetings with guest speakers, opportunities for networking, newsletters, and other activities.
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The first six photo here comes from Jonathan Steinman, taken on June 13. The Donjon tugs has delivered Chesapeake 1000 to a point just off Rockefeller University's campus to prepare for lifting prefabricated modules for Rockefeller's River Campus.
Step one for Donjon is to secure the gargantuan crane.
Then Atlantic Salvor moves into place to
receive the massive anchors, a job that Salvor
may be IS uniquely qualified to perform.
The yellow lighted buoys mark the anchors' positions.
By the time I got there on June 17, sans camera other than phone, several of the modules had already been lifted from the waterborne transport into the locations where they'll stay for a very long time. See time lapse of the installation of modules 1 and 2 on youtube here.
A dozen more modules will still be lifted when
water, tidal, and atmospheric conditions allow.
Click here for more information of the River Campus project, one of many construction sights to behold along the East over. A calendar of additional lifting can be found here, subject to change.
And many thanks to Jonathan for use of his photos and information about the project. Next time, I'll bring my good camera.
Previous sights to behold there can be found here.
And while we're on the topic of heavy equipment, here's a vimeo update of of invisible gold project happening off Block Island. I want to get back there soon.
In case you're wondering if this blog has gone adrift . . . I'll just plead solstice-ogling syndrome. Why stay on course when a grape popsicle 1949 Mercury oozes by like this, and it's tickling your tastebuds and it's
for sale, although I did not ask any particulars.
Only at the mermaid parade could you get a photo like this, although the photographer here might
be photographing the Chevy here with a right angle spy lens. Or maybe she was putting me in the frame?
Rattus rod!
I'd let this guy park for free.
Mesa sunrise on this mid-1950s Lincoln?
And finally, seeing this old Ford made me remember this unit from
way south Coney Island Caribbean.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who has now recalled that although Coney Island is surrounded (mostly) by the sixth boro, it is still part of Brooklyn.
Most paraders don outlandish costumes, like this one . . . how could there be a chicken-of-the-sea
named Lady Gaga.
And these next two photos MIGHT puzzle you . . . since the woman in black shorts and boots seems to command a lot of attention even though she is not particularly be-costumed.
Lots of attention and with a weird parasol.
Besides music and dance, I enjoy the costumes–however over-the-top or under-the-bottom– they may be. Even librarians dress up and carry conventional parasols, as
do museum folk.
And it's fun, except for the man in blue shirt blocking half the street and bombing lots of my photos; I'm sure I'm not alone in finding that just loutish. His press pass can't license him to photobomb that shamelessly, can it? Maybe someone with a press pass can weigh in on protocols for photographers at events like this?
Sometimes paraders break out of the procession and pose with the kids at the parade. I like that.
If you haven't seen the 1979 movie called The Warriors, here's a reference to that. I like that movie now because it depicts what parts of the city are said to have looked like 40 years ago.
Well, start counting down the days until the 2017 parade and make plans to be there.
All photos by Will Van Dorp. If you didn't recognize the woman in the black shorts near the top of this post, here's the story.
Meanwhile, here's my second shorter recording of Gypsyfunk Squad. Here was the first one.
Soon after this shot, the queen of hearts and troupe danced for the judges with this on a loud sound box. That makes for a good day, even though I can't remember Alice, a rabbit, or the dormouse. But that's one of the things I love about the parade . . . good music and dancing.
After then parade, Gypsy Funk Squad played on . . . Here's my phone-recorded sample of King Jack Neptune playing the oud, with a mermaid queen, percussion and dancers. Hear more oud–related to the lute–here.
Of course, Dick D. Zigun, honorific mayor of Coney Island, always leads off the parade with his drum and band.
I've never seen this sort of Mexican dancer in the parade, but they surely raised the bar for quality.
And of course, mermaids can make politics much more palatable than most politicians or media marketeers.
But mostly, it's exuberant music and ecstatic dancing.
How many starfish have you seen trumpeting?
And high octane drumming overcomes stasis.
Enjoy the photos, the solstice, and the strawberry moon.
Click here for mermaid parade years and here for annual solstice mermaid migration years.
All photos here by Will Van Dorp, who WAS a judge!
Here were previous snapshots of sample small craft on the sixth boro, a city of water all summer and all other seasons as well. Here one of the four-season RIBs of NY Media Boat passes along the western margins of Brooklyn, where a lot of folks congregate in the evening.
Manhattan is one of Classic Harbor Line's vessel.
Crew launch Christian works all summer and all other seasons too.
Tara heads under the Brooklyn Bridge as light fades.
Fish appear to be active over where Kate used to chum with food scraps.
And this skipper seemed to enjoy pushing his craft against the currents in Hell Gate.
And there are so many other small craft in all parts of the sixth boro. All these photos taken recently by Will Van Dorp.
Land mass area can be quantified in square miles, but I'd love to work with a mathematician to measure the area within NYC limits which is navigable, i.e., the sixth boro. Of course, "navigable" would need defining too. Immeasurable, of course, is the number of photos taken daily of vessels with the sixth boro.
Like this one of Crystal Cutler pushing
Patricia E. Poling westbound at the Brooklyn Bridge.
Taft Beach pushes BMLP 703 and 305 in the opposite direction. Also working recently have been
Paul Andrew with scrap,
Sarah Ann with more scrap,
Thomas D. Witte with crane barge Columbia,
James E. Brown with a spud barge,
and Fort Schuyler in various locations.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Unrelated, here's an interesting video on the salvage of Modern Express . . . passed along by JM.
Also, as we near the mermaid parade, here are details on a performance to get you in the mood, an adaptation of Oscar Wilde's the "Fisherman and his Soul."
This collage of orange and blue indicates that something unusual approaches . . .
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Atlantic Salvor might have been headed out on a long range mission, but
at this point, I realized this mission would begin in the Lower Bay of the sixth boro along with
lots of other vessels, although
something new this year was the escort of four commercial tugs: Sassafras, Miriam Moran,
Atlantic Salvor, and Normandy. 1150. I was happy to find someone to talk to.
It's fleet week NYC. Welcome all.
It's USS DDG 96,
and LSD 43.
At 1216, Eric McAllister joins the welcome party . . .
An E-2 flew by too.
The message on the port wheel well ((?) amused me.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Here was last year's arrival.
Yesterday was National Maritime Day. At the edges of the Upper Bay, people associated with the maritime industries gather for a memorial.
at Marisol Escobar's American Merchant Mariners' Memorial statue.
Two of the newest tugboats in the sixth boro–Fort Schuyler and Kings Point, named for two area maritime academies–stood off.
Service and sacrifice were honored.
Prayers and
other words were offered by SCI's Rev. David Rider and Marad's Paul "Chip" Jaenichen.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
I suppose I could call this RT 163b, since the photos in both were taken the same day, same conditions of light and moisture.
Let's start with Charles D. McAllister with Lettie G. Howard bare poles in the distance.
Evelyn Cutler with Noelle Cutler is tied up alongside a barge with Wavertree's still horizontal poles. Click here to see Evelyn as I first saw her.
Viking is high and dry, post the winter work.
Timothy L. Reinauer is back in town after a very long hiatus, at least from my POV. This may have been the last time I saw her.
Mary Gellatly gets some TLC as well; click here for the previous time she was in a "random" post.
Beyond Mister Jim, a pile of sand is growing in the yard just west of the Bayonne Bridge on the Staten Island side.
Elizabeth and Marjorie B. McAllister head out for a job.
Tasman Sea heads for the yard as
Amberjack departs.
And for closure, it's Marjorie B passing in front of a relatively ship-free Port Elizabeth. Click here for a photo of Marjorie B high and dry a few years ago.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
And in contrast to all that, in Niigata earlier today, here's some great vessel christening photos from Maasmondmaritime.
I considered calling this "random vessels," since I haven't used that title in a while, but here is a tighter focus for a few days: tugboats. Here I also randomize the backgrounds and seek out some vessels infrequently seen. Like the rare and exotic Shelby Rose and
Jay Michael and Vicki M and
Patricia with her racing stripes up against the gantry arms.
Wye River and James E. Brown here cross the south end of Newark Bay, where
Sandmaster has been tied up for (?) nearly a year now.
Sassafras did a circle in Erie Basin recently, and
Thomas, the Weeks tug, strode into town, picked up a barge and headed straight for Texas! The first time I saw Thomas was January 2009. Remember what memorable event splashed into the Hudson around the middle of that month?
Buchanan 12 here is light and seen from almost her prop wash. I hadn't noticed the Boston registry before.
Quantico Creek stays local a lot, but Severn I don't see much.
Here's Tangier Island behind . . yes, Gerardi's Farmers Market.
OK . . . that's it for today. All photos by Will Van Dorp. More random tugs tomorrow.


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What We Keepby Elizabeth Berg
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In a deeply woven tapestry of relationships and personal histories, Elizabeth Berg has created a compelling story that asks the question, Do you ever really know your mother, your daughter, the people in your family? Berg, the author of Talk Before Sleep and The Pull of the Moon, slowly reveals in What We Keep how the secrets and complexities of the past have shaped three lives.
Ginny Young is on a plane to be reunited with the mother she hasn't spoken to or seen in 35 years. She cannot help but think back to the summer of 1958, when she and her sister, Sharla, were young girls. A series of dramatic events unfolded that pivotal summer, beginning with the arrival of a mysterious and sensual next-door neighbor. Before long, the family divided, separating the sisters from their own mother -- until now.
As Ginny traces back through her life from the woman she has become to the girl she once was, she brings painful memories to the surface. Ginny must confront the choices that she has made, and eventually she is able to learn surprising truths about the people she thought she knew the best.
A soulful truth brings a deeper understanding of the human spirit to light in Berg's moving and deeply satisfying new work. What We Keep reminds the reader, through Ginny's own revelations, that the first step toward forgiveness is honesty.
Editorial Reviews
The Seattle Times
New York Newsday
"BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN . . . What We Keep is about ties that are buried but not broken, wounds that are dressed but never heal, and love that changes form but somehow survives. . . . [Ginny Young] crosses the country for a reluctant reunion with the mother she has not seen in 35 years. During the long hours of her flight, she returns in memory to the summer when she turned 12 and her family turned inside out. . . . Berg's tender depiction of a young girl's view of the world is uncanny and gives this story its heart. She captures perfectly what it was like to grow up in the '50s, presenting it like a long-forgotten, but still sharp photograph. . . . What We Keep will touch you. It will allow you, for a few hours, to see the world through the eyes of a 12-year-old and feel in your adult heart the stubborn endurance of love."
USA Today
"BERG'S FIFTH NOVEL IS ONE OF HER MOST COMPELLING. . . . Berg limns the character with such vivid detail, and such honesty, that reading the book is like having an intimate conversation with a friend who is baring her soul. . . . An excellent book to savor and pass on to a mother, a sister, or a close friend."
Charleston Post and Courier
"COMPELLING . . . Berg limns the character with such vivid detail, and such honesty, that reading the book is like having an intimate conversation with a friend who is baring her soul. . . . An excellent book to savor and pass on to a mother, a sister, or a close friend."
—Charleston Post and Courier
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- Publisher:
- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication date:
- 01/28/2002
- Edition description:
- Reprint
- Pages:
- 272
- Product dimensions:
- 4.35(w) x 7.30(h) x 0.76(d)
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Outside the airplane window the clouds are thick and rippled, unbroken as acres of land. They are suffused with peach-colored, early morning sun, gilded at the edges. Across the aisle, a man is taking a picture of them. Even the pilot couldn't keep still—"Folks," he just said, "we've got quite a sunrise out there. Might want to have a look." I like it when pilots make such comments. It lets me know they're awake.
Whenever I see a sight like these clouds, I think maybe everyone is wrong; maybe you can walk on air. Maybe we should just try. Everything could have changed without our noticing. Laws of physics, I mean. Why not? I want it to be true that such miracles occur. I want to stop the plane, put the kickstand down, and have us all file out there, shrugging airline claustrophobia off our shoulders. I want us to be able to breathe easily this high up, to walk on clouds as if we were angels, to point out our houses to each other way, way, way down there; and there; and there. How proud we would suddenly feel about where we live, how tender toward everything that's ours—our Mixmasters, resting on kitchen counters; our children, wearing the socks we bought them and going about children's business; our mail lying on our desks; our gardens, tilled and expectant. It seems to me it would just come with the perspective, this rich appreciation.
I lean my forehead against the glass, sigh. I am forty-seven years old and these longings come to me with the same seriousness and frequency that they did when I was a child.
"Long trip, huh?" the woman next to me asks.
"Oh," I say."Yes. Although . . . Well, I sighed because I wish I could get out. You know? Get out there and walk around."
She looks past me, through the window. "Pretty," she says. And then, "Of course, you'd die."
"Oh, well. What's not dangerous?"
"Beats me," the woman says. "Not food. Not water. Not air, not sex. You can't do anything. Well, maybe put your name on the list for Biosphere." We smile, ruefully. She's pretty, a young blond businesswoman wearing a stylish navy-blue suit, gold jewelry, soft-looking leather heels now slipped off her feet. At first, she busied herself with paperwork. Now she's bored and wants to talk. Fine with me. I'm bored, too.
"Do you ever think that this is the end of the world?" I ask. "I mean, don't get me wrong—"
"Oh, I know what you mean," she says. "I do think about that. Dying planets, how . . . unspecial we are, really. Just the most current thing in the line since paramecia."
The flight attendant stops her cart beside us, asks if we'd like a drink. This seems petty, considering the content of our conversation. Still, I request orange juice; the woman beside me says she'd like a scotch.
"You know what?" I tell the flight attendant. "I think I'll have a scotch, too." I have always wondered who in the world would want a cocktail on an early morning flight. Now I know: people with a load on their minds that they would like very much to lighten.
After my seatmate and I have pulled down our trays and set up our impromptu bar, I say, "I don't even like scotch."
"Me neither." She shrugs, takes a sip, grimaces. "But I really hate flying. Sometimes this helps."
I smile, extend my hand. "I'm Ginny Young."
"Martha Hamilton."
"You live in California?"
"Yeah. San Francisco. You?"
"I live in Boston. I'm going to visit my mother. She lives in Mill Valley."
"Nice. How long since you've seen her?"
I do some math, then answer, "Thirty-five years."
Martha turns toward me, stares. I know her scotch is pooled in her mouth.
I shrug. "I don't like my mother. I'm not ashamed to say that. She's not a good person. She did some things . . . Well, she's not a good person." Whenever people I've met tell their mother horror stories, I save mine for last. It's the best, because it's the worst.
"So . . . why are you going to see her?"
"It was my sister's idea. She thinks she's sick. Not my mother—her."
"Is she?"
"Don't know. She's waiting for some test results. But she wanted to go and see our mother. Just . . . in case. You know. Unfinished business that she feels she needs to attend to."
Martha breathes out. "Jesus. I'm sorry."
She touches my arm. "Are you all right?"
"Me? Yes! It's . . . this is old. It's so old. I didn't intend ever to see my mother again, and I was perfectly comfortable with that. I won't see her after this visit; I know that. I'm just doing this for my sister. Even though I don't really think she's sick. She can't be."
Martha nods, cracks an ice cube with her teeth, then looks at me, one eyebrow raised.
"Right," I say. "I know."
"I'll tell you something," Martha says. "I was in a cemetery last week, walking my dog. You're not supposed to walk your dog there, so when I heard someone coming, I hid behind this big marker. I saw a woman stop just a few graves away. She knelt down and started talking out loud. She was apparently talking about one of her kids who was giving her a really hard time, and then she said, 'I didn't do that to you, Ma, did I? Did I? And then she lay down and just started crying. She cried so hard! It was one of those things where the grief is so raw, you can't help yourself—you start crying, too. And when I started crying, my dog started barking. The woman looked up and saw me, of course. She got all embarrassed—jumped up and wiped her face, started straightening her clothes and rummaging around in her purse for something or other. And I felt terrible. It was terrible to have a dog there, those rules are absolutely right. I apologized, but I still felt like a jerk.
"All the way home, I wondered what that woman was crying about, what she had remembered. I wondered if other daughters talk to their mothers when they visit their graves, whether if, when my mother dies, I will. Seems like a good party question, doesn't it?—What would you say at your mother's grave? Well, maybe not a party question. But an interesting one. At least you'll have the chance to speak to her in person."
"Right," I say, although what I'm thinking is, there's nothing I want to tell my mother. I'm only going for Sharla. I love my sister; I'm finished with my mother, have been for a long time. Not for nothing did I sit in therapists' offices going through a forest's worth of Kleenex.
"Where does your sister live?" Martha asks.
"Texas. San Antonio. She'll be at the airport waiting; her flight gets in twenty minutes before mine."
"Has she seen your mother in all this time?"
"Wow. This will be some meeting."
"I know," I say, and drain what's left of the scotch. Then I squeeze the plastic glass to see how far I can bend it. Not far: it cracks in my hand. I put it in the throw-up bag, fold the top over, place it neatly in the center of my tray table. I don't want to talk anymore. I lean back, look out the window. I have my reasons, I tell myself—and Martha, too, in case she's picking up on my thoughts—she's from California, after all; they do stuff like that. But I do have my reasons. I absolutely do.
"Miss?" the flight attendant asks. "Breakfast?" I startle, then smile and nod yes to the fat slices of French toast she is offering me. I am probably the only one in the world who likes airline food. I appreciate the inventive garnishes, the only-for-you serving sizes. I like the taste of the salad dressings. When the entrée is something like pizza, I think, well, isn't that the cutest thing. Naturally, I don't admit this to anyone.
Martha has opted for the cheese omelet, and when I watch her cut it neatly in half, I wish I'd gotten one, too. She shrugs after her first bite, the physical equivalent of "Yuck." I smile, shrug back, pour the thick artificial maple syrup over my French toast. It looks delicious.
"I saw a row of three across open back there," Martha says, after she's eaten most of her breakfast. "I think I'll go on back and stretch out for a while."
"Unless you were thinking of that, too. In that case, we could flip for it."
"No, this is fine," I say. "I'll have more room, too. Anyway, I'm not going to sleep."
"Really? Any plane trip over an hour, I have to sleep. Otherwise I get stir-crazy. Once I brought letters to read on an airplane. You know, the kind of thing you keep, thinking sometime you'd really like to read them again, but then you never do. I brought along this huge stack of letters from old boyfriends. I took them out and read them all. They passed the time all right, but it was so embarrassing—they made me cry. I'll never do that again! Better to go to sleep and embarrass yourself by drooling." She stands, opens the overhead bin and pulls down a pillow and a blanket, heads down the aisle.
I know what Martha means about old letters. One rainy day after my younger daughter had gone to school, I went down into the basement and got out my battered cardboard box of love letters. I brought it up to the bedroom and dumped it out on the bed. Then I remember putting on this old purple cardigan that had a rip at the elbow—it was a little cold—and I sat and read those letters. All of them: sweet, morning-after notes full of misspellings that Tom Winchell had taped onto my bathroom mirror; fountain-penned missives from Tim Stanley, who went on to study theology, and I know why—so he could stand in a pulpit and talk, talk, talk. I read things that made me get soft at the center again, that made me stare out the window and sigh. I got absolutely lost in reverie; I felt really out of it for hours after I'd finished reading those letters. I almost called one of my old boyfriends, but I could anticipate what would happen. I would pour out a rush of sentiment—"Now, this doesn't mean anything, but do you remember, do you remember the incredible love we felt for each other, do you remember when we stayed out all night to watch the sun come up by the river and you put your jacket around me and I had a cut on my lip and you kissed me so gently it made me think I could never, never leave you?" I'd say something like that and the now-balding Larry Drever, holding the phone at the desk from which he sells life insurance, would say, ". . . Who is this?"
So I know it's dangerous to reenter the past. Especially when things come back to you as strongly as they do to me. I'm extremely good at remembering, have had this ability since I was very young. Give me one rich detail, and I'll reconstruct a whole scene. Say "Dairy Queen," and I'll recall a night in high school when I was there with a bunch of friends and a cloud of gnats hung around Joe Antillo's head and he reached up to swat them away and spilled his root-beer float all over himself and Trudy Jameson, who was wearing a blue shirt tied at the waist, and jeans with one back pocket torn off and her silver charm bracelet and "Intimate" perfume. She had a cold that night. A few days earlier, her eight-year-old brother Kevin had fallen off his bicycle and cut his knee so badly he'd required seven stitches, half of which he removed later that night with his sister's manicure scissors—"just to see what would happen," he told his horrified parents when they drove him back to the emergency room. "How do you remember all these details?" people ask me all the time. I don't know how. I just do. One image leads to another, then another, as though they're all strung together. And in any given memory I summon up, I become again the person I was then—I feel the weather, I feel everything. I lose the person I am now to some other, younger self.
It can hurt you, remembering—the shock of reentry, the mild disorientation, the inevitable sadness that accompanies a true vision of the past. Still, right now, staring out the window at the land far below me, realizing I have no idea where I am, I want nothing more than to do absolutely that. I want to go back to the time when I started to lose my mother, and search for clues as to why and how. I suppose it's about time. I lean my seat back. Close my eyes. Begin.
Meet the Author
Elizabeth Berg's novels Open House, The Pull of the Moon, Range of Motion, What We Keep, Never Change, and Until the Real Thing Comes Along were bestsellers. Durable Goods and Joy School were selected as ALA Best Books of the Year. Talk Before Sleep was an ABBY finalist and a New York Times bestseller. In 1997, Berg won the NEBA Award in fiction, and in 2000 her novel Open House was named an Oprah's Book Club selection. She lives in Chicago.
Brief Biography
- Hometown:
- Chicago, Illinois
- Date of Birth:
- December 2, 1948
- Place of Birth:
- St. Paul, Minnesota
- Education:
- Attended the University of Minnesota; St. Mary¿s College, A.A.S.
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Not Up to Berg's standard - slow reading
I just loved this book. It depicted the summer of a 12 year old girl growing up in the 1950s so perfectly. I really felt I knew this girl by the end of the book. My only complaint -- I didn't want it to end. A quick and easy read, but not lacking in content and feeling.
Obviously this is an author who knows how to write, but i felt the characters were not lovable in the slightest. I didn't like how the father got away with what he did and the fact that he not being honest allowed these girls to hate and distance themselves from their mother. That fact needed to be expounded on and wasn't. Bad writing.
Good story for mothers and daughters to read makes you think about the relationship between them
The book was interesting but not on my top ten list. It was a book I would recommend to avid readers. There are so many better books that I have read and would recommend.
Beautifully written. This book is touching and true with approachable, believable characters. Although some of Berg's later books are not as well written, this one is a treasure not to be missed.
Another good book from Elizabeth Berg!


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Join us at the Main Street Community Garden, 439 E. Main Street, where children can tell Santa what if they've been bad or good! Families get to snap free pictures with their cameras or cell phones. We just ask for a $1.00 donation to the Clayton Area Ministries.
Hundreds get to experience all that downtown Clayton has to offer from retail to service businesses. Many of the merchants welcome the crowds with holiday refreshments including cider, soft drinks, cookies, and candies. If your stomach is calling for more than just snacks, all downtown restaurants are open for dinner
We have to remember the reason for the season! A live nativity can be found on the open lawn of Sherry's Signature Cheesecakes, across the street from the Wagner House. And yes, they have live animals that don't mind being pet!
Kiddies can hop aboard this free holiday locomotive and enjoy a ride through the winter wonderland. The "train station" is located at the corner of Main & Fayetteville streets.
Grab your friends and your family and head to the Clayton Chamber of Commerce at 301 E. Main St. to snap a free ole-fashioned photo booth holiday photo - a complimentary souvenir of our 25th anniversary tree lighting!
This continues to be a popular contest. Contestants march from Doggie Do'z at 113 E First Street to Wine of Main. A minimum donation of $1.00 or a can of food for Johnston County Animal Shelter gets each four-legged friend a chance to participate. For more information, call Doggie Do'z at 919-553-5959.
Children from Clayton elementary and middle schools, daycares and dance studios provide holiday performances on risers at Horne Square in the center of downtown. Students from Clayton High Chorus perform on the steps of the Chamber of Commerce and carol along Main Street.
Commemorate the 25th anniversary of Clayton's Christmas Village and Tree Lighting with a limited edition ornament! These gold-plated keepsakes cost $15, and we'll have them for sale at our information tents at Town Square and Horne Square. Also keep an eye out the ornaments on sale at participating downtown businesses.
Kensley Leonard, our first-ever Miss Clayton, will sing a holiday favorite during the Tree Lighting ceremony scheduled for 7:45 p.m. in Town Square.
Two collection points for the CAM SLAM Holiday Food Drive are usually set up at several intersections along Main Street. Please donate any food items you can for those families less fortunate this holiday season. For more information call 919-553-5654 or visit www.claytonareaministries.org
The Clayton Downtown Development Association Inc. is a non-profit organization formed to coordinate revitalization work in the historic downtown district. The CDDA advocates and provides business improvement services in the downtown district, administers incentives for downtown improvements and organizes several special events — including the Town Square Concert Series and the Christmas Village and Tree Lighting. For more information about this event and others sponsored by the CDDA, please call 919-553-5002 or send us an email!


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3. Add the fruit juice, continuing to apply the heat so that the liquid is well reduced as the bananas cook.
4. Add the brandy turning and basting the bananas thoroughly.
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Calories 2186 Calories from Fat 444
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May 22nd, 2016 at Hebrew Tabernacle of Washington Heights
La Fiocco- The Recorder and Friends
Date: Sunday, May 22nd at 4:00 PM, with a light reception following the concert.
Location: The Hebrew Tabernacle of Washington Heights, 551 Fort Washington Avenue
Tickets: No tickets required, Free concert, donations warmly welcomed.
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Love Letter to London
With the Olympics and its pageant of fresh-faced competitors now in progress, London's appeal as a place for the young and ambitious seems stronger than ever. In his own quest to make it big 250 years ago, 22-year-old James Boswell arrived in London and began putting his experiences on paper. "Boswell's London Journal," the chronicle of nine months Boswell spent in the city in 1762 and 1763, endures today as a convivial guide to England's most famous metropolis.
"Boswell was the most charming companion in the world, and London becomes his dining room and his playground, his club and his confessional," the English novelist and critic Peter Ackroyd has declared. "No celebrant of the London world can ignore his book."
Boswell (1740-1795) is best known for "The Life of Samuel Johnson," a 1791 account of his dear friend and mentor that's been celebrated as the gold standard of modern biography. But London was the subject Boswell seemed to love most of all.
"He possessed most of the attributes of a supremely great reporter," the literary critic Clifton Fadiman observed of Boswell. "He wrote easily. He had a phenomenal memory. He knew how to take notes, written or mental. He put things down when he heard them. He had a nose for the striking, concrete detail. He loved gossip and scandal. And he always happened to be around when something new was happening or being said."
That sensibility deeply informs Boswell's "London Journal," which resonates with the urgency of a journalist working a beat. Although nothing ever seemed lost on Boswell, his "London Journal" is particularly thick with impressions, no doubt because Boswell's tender age made him more impressionable than most Londoners. "Maybe there was never anyone so young as Boswell was in the spring of 1763," the 20th-century American writer Christopher Morley said.
Boswell had gone to the city to find himself. He was the eldest son of the Laird of Auchinleck, which made him heir to a prominent Scottish estate. But Boswell's interest in theater and literature was a disappointment to his father, who wanted him to follow the family tradition and become a lawyer.
Eventually, Boswell was allowed to travel to London and stay for a time while he sought a commission in the Foot Guards. Boswell's goal of a military posting was doomed from the start. But his real purpose was a life in London, and it appears that any excuse to live there was good enough.
Arriving on Fleet Street, known today as the traditional center of British journalism, Boswell is pleased by what he sees. "The noise, the crowd, the glare of the shops agreeably confused me," he says in an entry for Nov. 16, 1762. "Agreeably confused" is vintage Boswell, pointing to his basic credo of London life. Dirty, bustling and bawdy, the city was a messy place in the 18th century, but Boswell embraced its energy.
His London is an alluring universe of appetites—some wholesome, others destructive—and he's hard pressed to distinguish which ones he can indulge without danger of ruin. "The enemies of the people of England who would have them considered in the worst light represent them as selfish, beef-eaters and cruel," he writes a few weeks after his arrival. "In this view I resolved today to be a true-born Old Englishman. I went into the City to Dolly's Steak-house in Paternoster Row and swallowed my dinner by myself to fulfill the charge of selfishness; I had a large fat beefsteak to [fulfill] the charge of beef-eating; and I went at five o'clock to the Royal Cockpit in St. Jame's [sic] Park and saw cock-fighting for about five hours to fulfill the charge of cruelty."
Feeding his sexual hungers, though, proves more difficult. An affair with an actress gives him gonorrhea, and his sessions with prostitutes routinely inspire remorse. His most fulfilling romance seems to be with the landscape itself. "After dinner I sauntered in a pleasing humour to London Bridge, viewed the Thames' silver expanse and the springy bosom of the surrounding fields," he writes as April comes.
After his London sojourn failed to produce a plum military job, Boswell left the city, studied law and, many years later, succeeded his father as head of the family estate. But his first extended period in London fueled literary ambitions that continued to define his life. "Boswell's London Journal" rightly stands besides "The Life of Samuel Johnson" as a Boswell masterwork.
Through a comedy of errors, the "London Journal" languished in obscurity until the early 20th century. It eventually landed at Yale University, which published its first edition of "Boswell's London Journal" in 1950. This 20th-century debut only served to remind readers how thoroughly modern Boswell can seem. The candor of his confessions and his willingness to dramatize his own life offer the same guilty pleasures as reality television.
"Upon my word my journal goes charmingly on at present," he writes on Feb. 9, 1763, standing to the side of his own narrative to offer an appraisal. "I was very apprehensive that there would be a dreary vacancy in it for some weeks, but by various happy circumstances I have been agreeably disappointed."
London proves an inexhaustible object of his curiosity. The period map in the journal's Yale University Press edition shows us how much geography from Boswell's city endures: the Thames that he adored, Drury Lane, and Buckingham House—now Buckingham Palace—where Boswell chatted up the sentries, plied them with beer and "talked on the sad mischief of war and on the frequency of poverty."
But the most durable aspect of "Boswell's London" is its author's regard for the city as a place of reinvention, a quality that seems timeless. "I have discovered," he wrote shortly after his arrival, "that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose."
In this way, Boswell's love letter to London seems a seminal contribution to a genre of urban rhapsodies that would later include Ernest Hemingway's portrait of Paris, "A Moveable Feast," and E.B. White's valentine to Gotham, "Here is New York."
Johnson was pleased that Boswell kept a journal, but suggested that, in the interest of discretion, he have it burned upon his death. How lucky we are that Boswell ignored his advice.
—Mr. Heitman, a columnist for the Baton Rouge Advocate, is the author of "A Summer of Birds: John James Audubon at Oakley House" (LSU Press, 2008).