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Mirinda Kossoff

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The Rope of Life: A Memoir

The Rope of Life: A Memoir

A daughter strives to understand her enigmatic father’s religious conversion during Jim Crow and beyond as they both search for acceptance.

2020

Mirinda Kossoff

Mirinda Kossoff

Stories

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Death with Dignity: Religion’s Cruel Opposition

— and its effect on my friend with end-stage ALS

6d ago

Death with Dignity: Religion’s Cruel Opposition

6d ago

Mirinda Kossoff

How I Cope with The Estrangement of My Adult Sons

Jul 13

Jul 13

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June 30, 2024

Last Thursday’s presidential debate was painful to watch — Trump spewing a volcano of lies and Biden trying to clean up the lava without…

Jun 30

June 30, 2024

Jun 30

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Lawns Begone; Give Pollinators a Break

Since the 1980s, when I was a single mom and had a modest house with a patchy grass yard, I have been complaining about the persistence of…

Jun 16

Lawns Begone; Give Pollinators a Break

Jun 16

Mirinda Kossoff

On What Not to do When Traveling

Fresh from seeing crime scene photos and relics of executed criminals at the Vienna Crime Museum, my nineteen-year-old twin sons and I were…

May 3

On What Not to do When Traveling

May 3

Mirinda Kossoff

Some Campus Protesters Seem Like Emissaries for Hamas

Scenes of student protests roiling campuses across the country remind me of Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 movie, Rashomon. The movie itself led to…

May 1

Some Campus Protesters Seem Like Emissaries for Hamas

May 1

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Netflix Gets it Right with the Three-Body Problem Series

Science fiction has not been my favorite genre, though I have appreciated a few well-done movies and Isaac Asimov’s books like I, Robot…

Mar 27

Netflix Gets it Right with the Three-Body Problem Series

Mar 27

Mirinda Kossoff

How to Live With a Body That Betrays You

My betrayal of a body has endured multiple surgeries to repair/replace knees, feet, neck, eyes, and excise two different cancers. My back…

Mar 5

How to Live With a Body That Betrays You

Mar 5

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An Out-of-Body Experience in Turkey

During my nearly twenty-five years of being single, between husbands, I fed my appetite for travel, even if I had to go alone. Fear of what…

Feb 1

An Out-of-Body Experience in Turkey

Feb 1

Mirinda Kossoff

Myth-Busting for Antisemites on Campus and Elsewhere

Anne Frank wrote: What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews. While true, something…

Jan 13

Myth-Busting for Antisemites on Campus and Elsewhere

Jan 13

Mirinda Kossoff

Mirinda Kossoff

Book Author

Mirinda Kossoff has been a columnist and essayist and recently published The Rope of Life: A Memoir and is at work on her second book.

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