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The Division Street Princess: Scaredy-Cat
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The Division Street Princess. Tuesday, November 02, 2010. This afternoon, I join Janie Isackson's Ethnic Chicago class to answer questions the DePaul University students have after reading my memoir, "The Division Street Princess.". Thirty-four questions await. The first sent me thinking. It read, "If you could go back in time, what is the one thing that you would change about your childhood? That's easy. I'd toss my timidity. This excerpted selection from Chapter 3, Safe on our Shores, explains:. And FJ...
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The Division Street Princess: November 2010
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The Division Street Princess. Tuesday, November 02, 2010. This afternoon, I join Janie Isackson's Ethnic Chicago class to answer questions the DePaul University students have after reading my memoir, "The Division Street Princess.". Thirty-four questions await. The first sent me thinking. It read, "If you could go back in time, what is the one thing that you would change about your childhood? That's easy. I'd toss my timidity. This excerpted selection from Chapter 3, Safe on our Shores, explains:. And FJ...
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The Division Street Princess: A Really, Really Long Distance Birthday Phone Call
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The Division Street Princess. Sunday, January 30, 2011. A Really, Really Long Distance Birthday Phone Call. 8220;Mom, where are you? 8221; I said. My query was directed to the computer’s screen. We were using iChat, and I was anxious to see my mother’s face. 8220;A minute, a minute,” I could hear her say. I turned up the volume on my Mac and heard clicks - a lipstick top being circled downward, a pocket mirror snapped shut. 8220;What kind of example would I set coming to see my daughter with a plain face?
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The Rookie Widow: November 2014
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Monday, November 17, 2014. The patch on her right sleeve read "78866." Using the Pilot pen I had tucked into the notebook's spiral, I wrote down the number. "Let me repeat it," I said, "78866.". The conductor smiled as I continued, "I'm going to send a compliment to Metro. You've been terrific.". Just take the dollar; my fault for being unprepared," I told her. Just ask one of the passengers for change," she said. "Don't waste money.". No, that's fine. My mistake.". But, 78866 insisted; so curbing embarr...
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The Rookie Widow: August 2014
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Thursday, August 21, 2014. Our Time is super excited. "You have 110 new profile views and 15 new messages! It writes, as enthusiastic as a prospector finding gold. Although weeks earlier I had dropped my membership and checked "do not automatically renew," the online dating site continues to send me these cheery emails. I imagine it - and JDate, another of my experiments - somewhere in cyberspace clucking at my resistance. Between two lonely singles.). Each one a mensch, and did she appreciate? Min," the...
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Never Too Old To Talk Tech: August 2011
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Never Too Old To Talk Tech. Advice for the mature or befuddled. Thursday, August 18, 2011. I was awoken by the sound of sobbing. I reached for my eyeglasses and looked around the bedroom to find the source of the disturbance. Husband was on his side, fast asleep. Not him. Dog was at the draped windows. Flat. Not him. Then, I looked to my left, to the bedside table where my Apple devices were plugged into their chargers. A tiny pool of water, likely caused by tears, surrounded the iPhone 3G. 3G was interr...
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The Division Street Princess: January 2011
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The Division Street Princess. Sunday, January 30, 2011. A Really, Really Long Distance Birthday Phone Call. 8220;Mom, where are you? 8221; I said. My query was directed to the computer’s screen. We were using iChat, and I was anxious to see my mother’s face. 8220;A minute, a minute,” I could hear her say. I turned up the volume on my Mac and heard clicks - a lipstick top being circled downward, a pocket mirror snapped shut. 8220;What kind of example would I set coming to see my daughter with a plain face?
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The Division Street Princess: Daddy Wants a Bite of His American Dream
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The Division Street Princess. Friday, July 11, 2014. Daddy Wants a Bite of His American Dream. It was an early evening in March of that year, and I was sitting in the kitchen of our three-room-flat watching my mother cook dinner, when Dad burst through the door and proclaimed, “Let’s buy the grocery store downstairs! 8221; My 33-year-old father must have taken the steps two-at-time for his face was flushed and he was starving for breath. Although Dad may have had the strength of Tarzan of the Jungle, he ...
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The Rookie Widow: February 2014
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Wednesday, February 5, 2014. Gerry tosses a green beach ball - the color of a lime Popsicle - to Anna. Although she is seated in a wheelchair, Anna is able to catch the ball, which is slowly deflating and becoming cushy, and send it back to the physical therapist. After class, when Louise choses a chair for her lunchtime, I perch on her hospital bed and attempt to cheer her. The old gray mare, she ain't what she used to be,. As our conversation continues, several thoughts hit me: I am good at this. That ...
