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Fork in the Road
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With Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, coming up this weekend, I thought I’d share another essay from a few years back.
May you find peace and forgiveness in your heart, and may you lead with kindness and co...
Our Song Is Our Prayer: Remembering 9/11
Today is 9/11. Tonight is the beginning of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year of 5787. Even though I am not observant, it is still a time of reflection and renewal. Below is an essay I wrote the week after 9/11/01. Since those days of Ameri...
My Day on the Shark Tank Set
Spring 2016. My friend Paula Fuchs threw a party. Her brother, Ken, was visiting from California. He’s an Emmy Award–winning Hollywood director of, among other shows, The Bachelor, Family Feud, Deal or No Deal, and Shark Tank.
Whaaat?? Te...
“Alone Is Alone, Not Alive”: True or False?
When I began writing ESCAPE VELOCITY, my book of 70 micro-memoirs of 70 words each, in April 2024, I didn’t know what it was about or what it would become. I played with ideas and scratched out drafts in rapid order, checking in with my edi...
Mastermind
In 1979, in a writing class called “Exposition and Experience” with Sanford Kaye at Harvard Extension School, I wrote the first version of this unpublished essay. In subsequent writing groups, classes, and seminars over the decades, I’ve at...
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Deborah Sosin, writer & therapist, has published in the NY Times, Boston Globe, elsewhere. Her set of 70 micro-memoirs, 70 words each, “Escape Velocity: How One 70-Year-Old Push-Pulled Her Way Out of Her Too-Much-Not-Enough Family,” is now available.
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