The Gingerbread Houses
The day after Thanksgiving my kids, grandkids and I will gather at my house as we do every year. I will set an autumn-themed tablescape...
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Ardelle Hirsch
- Nov 9, 2022
- 4 min
"Between You and Me..."
She died 25 years ago, November 9th at 1:17pm, while my daughter, sister and I were shopping at Marshalls for festive holiday-themed...
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Ardelle Hirsch
- Aug 29, 2022
- 3 min
The Illusion of Time
Last Tuesday, I headed to a café to meet Susan for lunch, almost 57 years to the day we had first met as freshmen at SUNY Plattsburgh. I...
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Ardelle Hirsch
- Apr 27, 2022
- 4 min
Disordered Space
The first 16 years of my life, my dad was frequently gentle and smiling, funny and dazed, enveloped in a sweet, seamless, alcohol-...
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Ardelle Hirsch
- Apr 17, 2022
- 4 min
Blurred Lines
Published, Times Union, April 17, 2022 When Will Smith impulsively launched himself to the stage at the recent Academy Awards, he wasn’t...
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Ardelle Hirsch
- Mar 24, 2022
- 5 min
Four Questions
There were only four questions and it seemed I could answer them quite easily: What were your dreams when you were younger? What did you...
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Ardelle Hirsch
- Jun 15, 2021
- 2 min
Childhood Summers
Ethereal fragments of childhood summers endure from our earliest recollections, impervious to edits in time or space. We waited...
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Ardelle Hirsch
- Jun 6, 2021
- 3 min
Do You Remember That?
I don’t have an answer for this. “What happens to all of those memories? my 42-year-old son wants to know. “Where do they go? Think about...
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Ardelle Hirsch
- Jun 3, 2021
- 3 min
Canopy of Fire
Even though they are not visible there is one in every room, a bug jar. In my house “grab and go” has little to do with take out unless...
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Ardelle Hirsch
- Jun 2, 2021
- 2 min
Looking the Other Way
I grew up on Long Island and on Friday nights our family often headed to the Westbury Drive-in for the fireworks. Before air conditioning...
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Ardelle Hirsch
- May 31, 2021
- 3 min
The Texture of Water
I never know how to respond when people ask, “Are you happy?” ”Happy” is not a place that one can program into Google Maps with the...
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Ardelle Hirsch
- May 30, 2021
- 1 min
Life as I see it ...
I’ve been recording life as I see it in words and images for as long as I can remember and for years I’ve been contemplating ways to...
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Ardelle Hirsch
- May 29, 2021
- 2 min
Decisions, decisions...
She’s 6, coughs almost exclusively at night and is very playful, but I learned yesterday that Callie probably has asthma, and while that...
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Ardelle Hirsch
- May 27, 2021
- 2 min
The Tiny Traveler
Neither my daughter nor I can remember exactly when this started, so I’ll need to begin in the middle. We “share” a tiny traveler. A...
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Ardelle Hirsch
- May 20, 2021
- 1 min
Backyard Dinners and Hope
There are 9 of them back there, the deer. Each night they come in search of food or company or curiosity ...I am glad they are here. I,...
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