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Bubbe’s iPad

Bubbe has a tenuous relationship with technology. Eight years ago, on her 75th birthday, we got her an iPad 2 — her first computer. It was in use, briefly — I remember one paragraph-length text I got from her while my family and I were sightseeing in Boston. But soon after, she pulled away from […]

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Cookies for Kayla

During the first two weeks of quarantine, I’d cracked open my family’s jacketless hardcover copy of The Best Recipe more times than I could count. After trying and re-trying the classic chocolate chip recipe, whose page was stained and warped by water and vanilla extract, I explored the surrounding pages — recipes we’d never made […]