Dina's Substack: Music and Musings

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With sensitivity and wit, Friedman creates a tableau of characters, scenery, sounds, smells, and tastes as varied as those who have claimed or seek to claim a home within our borders. Read more ab… | Photo credit: Michael Hirtle I grew up in New York City, a place I hold close to my heart and love to write about. When I was 23, my husband and I moved to western Massachusetts because it was “a compromise between Brooklyn and the Ozarks.” (He was the one who wanted to live in the Ozarks!) We lived in Northampton, a small college town, for seventeen years, before moving twenty-five years ago to an old farmhouse in a rural neighboring town, next door to 600 cows. Here’s a picture of the view outside my window, a far cry from the skyscrapers of New York. I’ve wanted to be a writer since I was eight and I began to publish in literary magazines back when I was in my early twenties, during the t

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