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Letters to the Editor: Hillary, Islam, and reflections on Mom’s stuff

Jewish Journal September 7, 2016

Letters to the Editor: Hillary, Islam, and reflections on Mom\’s stuff

Can you rest in peace while your stuff rests in a dumpster?

Teresa Strasser September 1, 2016

When my mom died, I had to find a home for her panther. Not an actual endangered wild cat, a lamp.

Learn to listen to your own kid, not the voices in your head

Teresa Strasser May 9, 2012

There is some unwritten statute of limitations on how long one can whine about a crappy childhood, a negligent parent, a few too many chicken pot pies, summers with the grandparents, days spent on Greyhound buses and with dubious caregivers and creepy neighbors. There is just a moment in an adult’s life when the complaining and sad-sacking about how our parents got divorced, or lost custody, or bailed, or otherwise stank up the joint is just kind of pathetic. Let’s face it, that moment had come and gone for me.

Opinion: Chewable Xanax and the shoe debacle

Teresa Strasser April 18, 2012

I had to look inside myself, which was kind of like looking into my high school locker: moldy half-eaten sandwich, a few loose Starburst candies, heaps of notebooks and burrito-stained gym clothes obscuring the few things of value. Sure, there’s a book of Sylvia Plath poems and a valid bus pass, but good luck finding them while avoiding that festering tuna salad from yesteryear.

A week ago, a 22-year-old Japanese foreign exchange student named Mari moved in with us for the month while she studies English in the morning and hip-hop dances in the afternoon.