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All purpose COVID-19 newsletter: April 20

Hello and hope you had a calm weekend. I’ve been sending and receiving lots of info over the past few weeks and thought I’d start a bulletin to give you some tips that you might enjoy. Please send me suggestions and I’ll put them in the next issue.

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Recipe: Secret Ingredient One-Bowl Cake (Melissa Clarke)...

Latin America

I was 21 and a half. I had graduated from Catholic University in Washington DC in June with a degree in speech and drama. The university had a terrific theatre reputation and among its many recruiters were the US Defense and State departments. Defense sponsored cultural and performing tours of the many US military bases in Europe and Asia. State worked with...

Ellen

The first time I SAW Ellen was not the first time I actually met her. It was after lunch in the cafeteria of our all girls’ high school, St Aloysius Academy, in Jersey City. One day, I saw this exotic looking girl who wasn’t in my class sitting at a lunch table with an array of makeup in front of her. She was doing something with a kind of brush I’d never seen, swishing it around her face. I was...

Joe

He was a sculptor and worked in polished bronze.  
His skin was smooth, luminous, tan; clean, wide fingernails
 
Beautiful brown eyes, like the ones cut in mosaics of the boys in the Greek and
Roman halls in the Metropolitan  
He made radiating forms that looked like children’s jacks and there were big and
little ones all over his studio.  
He wore an oversized plastic mask when he was welding and he...