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Janet Silver Ghent

Janet Silver Ghent

Janet Silver Ghent, a retired senior editor at J., is the author of “Love Atop a Keyboard: A Memoir of Late-life Love” (Mascot Press). She lives in Palo Alto and can be reached at [email protected].

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Rouxing the day my immersion blender failed me

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent August 16, 2021
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California’s broken nursing home system broke my heart

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent July 6, 2021July 6, 2021
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I’m tired of singing alone. Bring on the whole-iness of choirs!

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent June 7, 2021
Allen Podell, husband of the author, sorts through old furniture.
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Purging a lifetime of ‘stuff’ that nobody wants — except me

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent May 18, 2021May 18, 2021
A note to Pandemic Panties wearers: "Put on one leg at a time."
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How these women turned a cheeky joke into ‘Pandemic Panties’

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent April 19, 2021April 19, 2021
Rabbi Ari Cartun's family having Shabbat dinner together, March 2020.
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Pandemic Shabbats offer lessons to carry forward

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent April 8, 2021
This Western Scrub Jay  visited during Janet Silver Ghent's outdoor Passover seder. (Photo/Phoenix Podell)
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Yellow-bellied fluffernutter and the bluebird of Passover

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent April 2, 2021
It's just too many remotes. (Photo/Janet Silver Ghent)
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For me, figuring out our TV is a remote possibility

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent March 24, 2021March 25, 2021
Janet Silver Ghent (left) and her husband care for elephants at a sanctuary in Thailand in 2018.
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Itching to travel again, but can our bodies handle the rigors?

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent February 24, 2021
a stack of newspapers
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I think like a journalist, and maybe that’s my problem

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent January 13, 2021

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