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“Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter”
A personal memoir of love, caregiving, and the emotional realities of illness and approaching lossFrom a distance, the marriage of Antonia Fraser, a notable British biographer and author, and the late Harold Pinter, the 2005 Nobel Laureate of Literature, would seem an unlikely match; Pinter having been rather irritable and abrasive, while Fraser more refined and tactful. Their courtship no less ruffled the feathers of the public considering…
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Sex and Death
I spent a night with Harold Pinter with Off Broadway West Theatre Company’s production of his two short plays, The Dumb Waiter and The Lover. I saw sex, death, and a whole lot of talent contained in two hours, and the adorably cozy hole-in-the-wall Phoenix Theater in San Francisco. Afterwards, I caught up with Cecilia Palmtag, director…
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An Unexpected Death Brings Our Family Together
One winter night in 2005, I received a phone call – one of those dreaded calls we all know could happen at any moment, try as we might to forget it. But I will never forget the warbling pitch of my mom’s voice as my answering machine clicked to life and announced: “Matt’s dead”. My…
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SevenPonds
While this marks the first entry into the SevenPonds blog, this is not the very beginning. The beginning was all the summers I spent with my Swiss-born grandparents, Otto and Ida Gilomen, at their home on the shores of Seven Ponds, a group of seven small glacier-cut lakes in Metamora, Michigan. The person I am…
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