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Category: Personal Narrative

Epiphany – at 17

May 27, 2023Robin EngelPersonal Narrative, STORIES, ESSAYS, NARRATIVES, & NOVELSadolescent, autumn, colors, epiphany, tree

May 2023, by: Robin J. Engel When I was 17 (no, this is not a Frank Sinatra song), I used to get high sometimes. Now, don’t get nervous. Yes, it was illegal back then, which was almost 50 years ago, so if you do the math, you can guess my age. Also, I’m sure there…

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Subtleties of Taste

Aug 26, 2021Robin Engel1 CommentPersonal Narrative, STORIES, ESSAYS, NARRATIVES, & NOVELS

I have not been able to taste anything in several weeks. Now, before you get yer panties in a bunch, I’ve been tested for Covid twice, both times negative. Apparently, there are numerous reasons a person can lose their taste and/or smell including your garden variety cold, sinus infection, etc.  This is the first time…

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Connections

Apr 27, 2021Robin EngelPersonal Narrative, STORIES, ESSAYS, NARRATIVES, & NOVELSBreaking Bad, cancer, mensch, parents, sacrifice, Walter White

I’ve been watching Breaking Bad, a show about a high school chemistry teacher who gets lung cancer at age 50 and decides to cook methamphetamine, one of the worst drugs in existence, so he can make money to pay for his cancer treatments and leave a nest egg for his family. Actually, aside from the…

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Beliefs

Apr 10, 2021Robin EngelPersonal Narrative, STORIES, ESSAYS, NARRATIVES, & NOVELS

What is it exactly that I believe? I like to pride myself on saying that I don’t actually believe anything, not completely, because I leave room for possibilities. There are at least 2 sides to  every story, and thinking we are correct about anything is a collective myth. Of course, that leaves one imbalanced sometimes,…

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Characters

Mar 22, 2021Robin EngelPersonal Narrative, STORIES, ESSAYS, NARRATIVES, & NOVELScharacter development, characters, writing exercises

I think it’s important for you to know my process. The following are characters that I wrote about based on some writing exercises I created. I came up with a few ideas about a character, then proceeded just to write, without edification or premeditation. Sometimes, I have an outline for a story, and sometimes, I…

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Narcissism & Excess – the U.S. today

Mar 9, 2021Robin EngelPersonal Narrative, STORIES, ESSAYS, NARRATIVES, & NOVELS

I don’t really like the idea of plastic surgery. I realize that people are going to continue to have it, and it has been accepted as a norm. Don’t get me wrong. I look at my face in Zoom meetings and obsess about my sagging jowls as much as the next middle aged woman. But…

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My Dad – the immigrant

Feb 28, 2021Robin EngelPersonal Narrative, STORIES, ESSAYS, NARRATIVES, & NOVELSdad, immigrant, memories, soldier, the old country

Abe’s life was shaped by his history. My dad came from “the old country”, somewhere in Poland, but he came early enough so he had no accent. Abe was the baby of the family. His father died when Abe was 3, from Tuberculosis, but Abe had several older brothers and sisters as surrogate parents.  Life…

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the Quest

Feb 13, 2021Robin EngelPersonal Narrative, STORIES, ESSAYS, NARRATIVES, & NOVELSastral projection, dark tower, meaning, quest, truth

Alpha (the beginning) The Dark Tower; I am still wondering what that means. I have always thought about the deeper meaning of life, or the nature of reality.  My life journey has had dragons, princes, and princesses, because I couldn’t have made it through without the women in my life. The sojourn has had castles…

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the High School Years

Feb 6, 2021Robin EngelPersonal Narrative, STORIES, ESSAYS, NARRATIVES, & NOVELS1972, commons, Dostoyevsky, high school, North Massapequa, suburbia, teenager, the New School

Moving from Brooklyn to North Massapequa on Long Island, New York, I was the new kid on the block. The only friends I made were a set of twins who had also recently moved from the city to suburbia and together, we lamented. We hated it. I couldn’t sleep, it was so darned quiet. I…

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Mind Trappings & Henrietta Lacks

Jan 30, 2021Robin EngelPersonal Narrative, STORIES, ESSAYS, NARRATIVES, & NOVELS

I’m reading, “ the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot. A fascinating non-fiction that reads like a novel. Anyway, I don’t believe in divine providence, at least, not the way Evangelicals of the Christian or Muslim faith do. I might be closer to Henrietta’s family – they still believe in Voo Doo, even…

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