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Losing my Hair to Cancer Made Me Realize What Mattered in Life

Hair today, gone tomorrow, but not forever

Jul 13, 2024

Me in my blue wig in my apartment

Jul 13, 2024

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At 70, I Was Still a Wannabe Groupie

Unseemly, maybe. Fun? Hell, yes

Jun 25, 2024

I’m at the far right of a group of three at the Steel Wheels concert.

Jun 25, 2024

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Lost and Found off Exit 21 on the Thruway

How the view that inspired Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School of Painting, also inspired me.

May 16, 2024

View of the Catskill Creek from my back deck.

May 16, 2024

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Rebels in Search of a Cause

We were seeking our own doors of perception, and momentarily found each other

Feb 7, 2024

a group of school girls sit, with hands on laps.

Feb 7, 2024

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Terminal

How a chance encounter on a long, snowy night between planes in Amsterdam changes a prognosis

Nov 16, 2023

A view of an Amsterdam canal with several vintage bicycles in the foreground.

Nov 16, 2023

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Dilapidated Digs, Princess Margaret, and the Fringe Festival

Making sense of my nomadic student days in Edinburgh

Feb 28

Buildings line the Water of Leith, a river in Edinburgh

Feb 28

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2024: It Was a Very Good Year

—Apart from the election, which we won’t mention

Jan 12

A glorious view of the hills at Aultachruine, Scotland

Jan 12

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An Austrian Ski Holiday Sounded Sublime

But it came with a lesson about the frailty of youth

Dec 24, 2024

A ski run with the setting sun in the background

Dec 24, 2024

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1970s America Wasn’t Pretty

My letters home reveal a wondrous enchantment

Nov 30, 2024

1970s America Wasn’t Pretty

Nov 30, 2024

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Hill Kirk Graveyard: Honoring the Dead in a Place Full of Life

How an overgrown graveyard became a wildlife oasis

Oct 29, 2024

The view across from the top graveyard across Blairgowrie

Oct 29, 2024

Annie Forbes Cooper

Annie Forbes Cooper

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Transplanted Scot, former journalist, trying to find the meaning of life through storytelling. I write as if I were dying.

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