Energizer Summer
My email inbox on any given day I’ve been smiling a bit more lately. I have a new joie de vivre . There’s a pep in my step. My joie de...
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Below is a collection of my Tilting at Windmills Column from The East Hampton Press and my other articles.
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Tracy Grathwohl
- Jul 18
- 4 min
I Just Turned Sixty and I’m Short on Time
Sometimes my deadlines come up a little too quickly. Do you ever have a week or a month where your personal life gets so busy you don’t...
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Tracy Grathwohl
- Jun 12
- 4 min
We Must, We Must...
The BraBall by Emily Duffy on display at the American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD Our hockey puck is getting married this...
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Tracy Grathwohl
- May 4
- 4 min
I Know What Moms Want
What are you getting Mom for Mother's Day? Mother’s Day is next week, and I’m thrilled. The hockey pucks don’t live with us right now, so...
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Tracy Grathwohl
- Mar 22
- 4 min
Much Ado About Nothing
My cheerful socks and my recovering knee. For the past six months, I’ve been doing nothing. I didn’t work on my magnum opus. I didn’t...
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Tracy Grathwohl
- Feb 8
- 4 min
Girl Dinner
My Girl Dinner the other night. "Real" Kraft Mac & Cheese I’m going to tell you something that I don’t usually speak of in polite...
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Tracy Grathwohl
- Dec 14, 2023
- 4 min
We Need a Little Sparkle
My closet, sans-ottoman. When I get an invitation to a party - say, a friend's disco themed 60th birthday party - I want to be the woman...
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Tracy Grathwohl
- Nov 9, 2023
- 4 min
Exit Plan
Do you ever think about the disposal of your body? In the summer blockbuster movie, “Barbie,” Barbie asks, “Do you guys ever think about...
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Tracy Grathwohl
- Sep 28, 2023
- 4 min
Salad Days
My salad spinner, in my drainboard. Whenever I make a salad, I have only one thought: I hate the salad spinner. I hate cutting up the...
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Tracy Grathwohl
- Aug 17, 2023
- 4 min
Tracy’s Beach Blanket Bingo™ Is Back!
The summer traffic has made me as tired as this old beach bag. So I brought back Beach Blanket Bingo! I heard the following conversation...
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Tracy Grathwohl
- Jul 6, 2023
- 4 min
Born On the 3rd of July
Happy Birthday to ME!! Someone had a birthday this week. Can you guess who? It’s me! You were thinking, “It was July 4th, America’s...
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Tracy Grathwohl
- May 25, 2023
- 4 min
Hotel, Motel, Holiday Inn
The salad bar in my latest hotel's shower. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Life is a journey, not a destination.” Etsy sells this quote on...
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Tracy Grathwohl
- Apr 27, 2023
- 4 min
Trash Talk
Inside this bag is about 15 pounds of my unwanted used skivvies! I recently had a housewifing triumph. I removed grease stains from Mr....
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Tracy Grathwohl
- Mar 5, 2023
- 4 min
Food, Glorious Food
Always Tasty! A few weeks ago, I suffered a partial intestinal blockage and my digestive system stopped working. I’ll spare you the gory...
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Tracy Grathwohl
- Jan 19, 2023
- 4 min
Get Out Of Dodge
It's a bit gray here in the East End and I'm sick of it. Did you know that Mr. Hockey, the hockey pucks, and I lived in London for six...
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Tracy Grathwohl
- Dec 1, 2022
- 4 min
Is It Holiday Time Yet?
There are three ways to spell Hanukkah. I can never keep it straight. It’s December 1st. We can talk about the holidays. Finally. As if...
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Tracy Grathwohl
- Oct 25, 2022
- 1 min
A Time I Was Untamed
Generation Women Storytelling Night February 19, 2020 at Caveat, NYC I represented Team 50s
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Tracy Grathwohl
- Oct 25, 2022
- 4 min
Some Like It Iced
I like coffee. I like men. I went to Starbucks every single day for more than twenty years. It’s probably closer to thirty. I’m afraid to...
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Tracy Grathwohl
- Oct 2, 2022
- 4 min
The Snowy Day
I was fluent in snow. My teacher friends have told me that when their students wanted a snow day, they wore their pajamas inside out the...
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Tracy Grathwohl
- Oct 2, 2022
- 4 min
Pumpkin Spice Election
I don't like nutmeg. I do like elections. This column was originally published on October 8, 2020 in The East Hampton Press, but I forgot...
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