Abigail Rasminsky
By Abigail Rasminsky
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Life The Secret, Forgotten Pleasure Of Writing A Daily Thank You Note
I was looking for a better way to mark time. To keep my days from blurring together, which seemed to be devolving into a dull, endless loop of unfinished to-dos. So last Thanksgiving, inspired by Gina Hamadey’s Thank You Year, I decided to write one thank you note every day for a year — first…
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Culture My Chosen People
Last spring, I celebrated Passover at the Seward Park Housing Corporation on Grand Street in Manhattan, a few blocks from where my grandmother grew up, above her father’s tailor shop in the 1920s. While the matzo ball soup simmered on the stove, my friends and I gathered in the dining room. The only thing distinguishing…
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