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Memories of—and Lessons Learned from—my Mother, Ottilie Tag

January 3, 2021 1:21 am Published by paulmarktag 3 Comments

My mother, Ottilie Tag, known to her friends as Tillie, died of natural causes not related to COVID this past... View Article

October 31, 2020 9:30 pm Published by paulmarktag 3 Comments

I am writing this blog to summarize my recent experience trying to find a literary agent to market my... View Article

October 10, 2020 10:30 pm Published by paulmarktag 4 Comments

I met Becky in early 1983. I was thirty-seven years old at the time, and my parents were convinced... View Article

May 31, 2020 9:39 pm Published by paulmarktag 11 Comments

We remember things differently, you and I. What stands out to one person from the distant past means nothing to... View Article

March 20, 2020 9:56 pm Published by paulmarktag 6 Comments

They call it coronavirus, a genetic aberration, a mutation damnation, an intimidation plaguing the world’s civilization. How long... View Article

May 19, 2019 10:58 pm Published by paulmarktag 9 Comments

Every year when Veteran’s Day rolls around, I think of my Uncle Gus Kern, who died in World War II.... View Article

October 24, 2018 8:04 pm Published by paulmarktag 4 Comments

My wife—AKA Becky—went to her high school reunion: rah-rah! to which she invited me, avoiding hints of complicity. (ha ha)... View Article

August 27, 2018 12:06 am Published by paulmarktag 4 Comments

I attended my high school reunion, it happened last week: we’d graduated fifty-five years earlier, an amazing streak. It was... View Article

April 12, 2018 11:56 pm Published by paulmarktag 2 Comments

I’ve made an acquaintance named Jayne—not her real name— who’s seen troubles a plenty, that have set her life aflame.... View Article

March 1, 2018 6:47 pm Published by paulmarktag 2 Comments

At five years, petite and slender, she saw something more; she wondered, searched her brain for not having seen... View Article

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