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Here We Go Again

Evelyn Herwitz — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:00:30 +0000

So, it’s back to my dentist again tomorrow to get my new implant crown readjusted one more time. Sigh. Twenty-four hours after Dr. K cemented the new, improved version into my mouth, I felt it wiggling. I called the office and asked to have his partner, Dr. F., take a look. This is complicated. Dr. […]

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Until Next Year

Evelyn Herwitz — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:00:44 +0000

Last Wednesday night marked the beginning of Passover, when we always host the first seder for our extended family. Al’s first cousins always host the second seder. This is a family tradition that dates back to Al’s mother and her youngest sister, who alternated hosting the two festive meals every year, when we join Jews […]

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Try, Try Again

Evelyn Herwitz — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 13:00:43 +0000

Every morning, I try to spend a few minutes meditating. I use an app, which is helpful and instructive. My mind wanders as minds do, but I am, over time, getting more adept at slowing down and focusing on my breath. This came in very handy on Monday, when I found myself back in my […]

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Crowned

Evelyn Herwitz — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 13:00:03 +0000

And so, on Monday, I got my new crown for my fifth dental implant. It feels odd to have all my teeth once again, always an adjustment after nine months from extraction to finish, living with a space in my mouth. As it was last month when my dentist and his team took impressions to […]

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Open Wider, Please

Evelyn Herwitz — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 13:00:59 +0000

So, on Monday I made another long drive for a not-so-short appointment, this time to my dentist for the next step in my latest tooth saga, measuring my mouth for the crown for my implant. While I’m grateful that there is a way to keep saving my teeth as I keep losing them to scleroderma-induced […]

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Making Waves

Evelyn Herwitz — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 12:00:42 +0000

On Sunday, Al and I went to one of our favorite places, Block Island, an hour’s ferry ride off the Rhode Island coast. We used to vacation there when our daughters were young. Unlike just about anywhere else I can think of, the island remains a time capsule. Many of the same weathered buildings line […]

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How I Spent My Spring Vacation

Evelyn Herwitz — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 12:00:12 +0000

I’m back home since last Tuesday night, back on East Coast time, and nearly caught up on sleep, after an intensive 12-day journey with Al to Germany. As is my way, I packed a lot into our itinerary, based in part on more research for Novel 2, which is set in Weimar Germany, and in […]

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Choose Humanity

Evelyn Herwitz — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 12:00:44 +0000

I am writing on Monday afternoon, October 7, the dark one-year anniversary of the terror attack by Hamas in Israel that launched what now seems like a never-ending war. Twelve-hundred people, mostly Israelis, were slaughtered that day and hundreds taken hostage. There remain 101 hostages in captivity in Gaza, tens of thousands of innocents in […]

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Cutting Loose

Evelyn Herwitz — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 12:00:59 +0000

As I’ve written a few times over the years since I began this blog, packaging is the bane of my existence. On Monday morning, I was wrestling with a plastic package for a nasal spray that I use occasionally to clear my sinuses and reduce post-nasal drip and related cough. The thing was hermetically sealed. […]

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The More Things Change

Evelyn Herwitz — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 12:00:12 +0000

Father’s Day came up suddenly, or so it seemed. When I asked Al last week what he’d like to do, he mentioned a play at a local academy and dinner out. That seemed like a fine plan, as neither of our daughters was in town. But as we took a long walk on Saturday afternoon, […]

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