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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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