by Bruria Cooperman | Jun 12, 2023 | Canada
MY MOTHER/MY FRENEMY It happened on a break from university, which I had been attending in New York. I was upstairs, just getting up when I hear, “OHM” — repeated several times. Had I been transported overnight to an ashram? My mother – whom...
by Bruria Cooperman | May 25, 2023 | Canada
by Bruria Cooperman | Dec 10, 2021 | Canada | 0 comments AM I SHRINKING AND TURNING BLONDE? My mother was barely 5′ 1″ and like many of her generation, became blonder and blonder with time. In her later years, I do remember a particular smell permeating her bedroom —...
by Bruria Cooperman | May 25, 2023 | Canada
MISS LEWINGTON — A VERY IMPORTANT PIANO TEACHER She was very tall. And spindly. She lived in a 30-room ‘house’ — that ‘house’ as she so humbly described it, is now an old age home — with her cat. A cat she had...
by Bruria Cooperman | May 14, 2023 | Canada
THE BRONX – WHAT AM I DOING HERE!?? Memories of my family get-togethers in the Bronx makes Woody Allen’s dream sequences seem Gentile in comparison. There we were, our Bresler clan, with some newbies thrown in, made up of the quirkiest characters to step...
by Bruria Cooperman | May 14, 2023 | Canada
TRAVELLING THROUGH LIE WITH AN ALIEN How a September/December marriage between a Right-of-Attila man and a Trotskyite woman can live under the same roof. Two goldfish, a hampster and a dog named Kafka are only the beginning. Wednesday, 24 August 2011 So Far –...
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