• I Found My Purpose After Losing My Mother to CancerHer death pointed me in the right direction

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    I Found My Purpose After Losing My Mother to Cancer
    Her death pointed me in the right direction



  • Sex and Death

    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

    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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