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Questions I ask myself in my 80s

  • Post published:February 15, 2022
  • Post category:Columnists/In My Mind's I by Harriet Gross

When they said goodbye to this earth, most of my female relatives were younger than I am today! Now, I’m well into my personal 80s, which gives me both pause…

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Back in the day: my ‘groundhog’ daughter

  • Post published:February 8, 2022
  • Post category:Columnists/In My Mind's I by Harriet Gross

The days and weeks go whizzing by, and here it is, February already. Its beginning is always extra-special for me because Feb. 2 is my daughter’s birthday — which was…

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Antisemitism, up close and personal

  • Post published:February 2, 2022
  • Post category:Columnists/In My Mind's I by Harriet Gross

Like so many others of our Jewish community, I fully realize that there’s only one thing for all of us to concentrate on now: antisemitism. One local rabbi plus the…

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Facing many kinds of adversity

  • Post published:January 25, 2022
  • Post category:Columnists/In My Mind's I by Harriet Gross

I may have lost my mind — at least temporarily — but haven’t yet lost the ability to meet a Mind’s I deadline! And you all should know that for…

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Cats, poems and a proverb

  • Post published:January 18, 2022
  • Post category:Columnists/In My Mind's I by Harriet Gross

Today I’m thinking about cats — because several people who know I love cats have sent me items about them… You see: I’ve always had cats — quite a few…

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Truths and realities

  • Post published:January 13, 2022
  • Post category:Columnists/In My Mind's I by Harriet Gross

Hopes and dreams aren’t always realities; neither are realities always present in hopes and dreams. I’ve found out both are truly truths since moving here to our community’s Legacy Midtown…

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Looking backward, looking forward

  • Post published:January 13, 2022
  • Post category:Columnists/In My Mind's I by Harriet Gross

January — this first month of this newest of our new years — was named long ago for the Roman god Janus, who had the unique ability to look backward…

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A friend and an angel

  • Post published:December 29, 2021
  • Post category:Columnists/In My Mind's I by Harriet Gross

So here we are, closing the final pages of yet another bygone year. I do so literally, with a book: “The World of Paul Crume,” a late, much beloved columnist…

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10 rules for reading a political column

  • Post published:December 21, 2021
  • Post category:Columnists/In My Mind's I by Harriet Gross

I’ve held on to this very-yellowed strip of newsprint for more than a dozen years, hoping for a proper opportunity to pass it along. And today’s political climate seems just…

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Ideas for how to spend Dec. 24-26

  • Post published:December 15, 2021
  • Post category:Columnists/In My Mind's I by Harriet Gross

If you don’t already know about this, you should mark your calendars NOW for the 29th Annual Kung Pao Kosher Jewish Comedy. In the West Coast’s Bay Area, this is…

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