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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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Imogene’s Notebook

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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Fuck You, Cancer—How an Online Writing Community Saved My Life

A farewell to Zoetrope Writers Studio

Jul 2

An image of buildings created by Coppola to represent a virtual studio

Jul 2

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Following Durrell’s Dreams

How a Childhood Memoir Sparked a Lifelong Love Affair with Travel, Mishaps, and the Art of Storytelling

May 29

Me in front of Karen Blixen’s farm in Africa

May 29

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Six Word Photo Story Challenge

Raging Controversy Couldn’t Scare Fearless Girl

May Six Word Photo Story Challenge “Sculptures”

May 25

Myself striking the same post next to the statue of Fear Girl

May 25

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The Renovation Romance Files

When potential beaus offered help renovating my fixer-upper, they got more, or less, than they bargained for.

May 2

Lower half of a paint-splattered man and woman

May 2

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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

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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