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Shirley Coles, formerly of Rhode Island, now resides in Flagstaff, Arizona with her two cats and her favorite pastimes: reading, writing essays and poetry, and volunteering as a tutor of ESL, Spanish, and Creative Writing. A graduate of URI with a masters degree in mental health counseling, she is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She has three married children and three granddaughters.

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Tateh: My Father  
By Shirley Coles
I lost my father when I was ten-- his only child, his only daughter. It is only in recent times that I have pondered the importance of having a father...
The Jewish Woman » Readers Write » Writing » Reflections
The Solo Journey  Life After the Loss of a Spouse  Story
By Shirley Coles
How does one reach out to others, to give and to receive, if the very act of waking in the morning causes the pain of realizing one has loved and lost?
The Jewish Woman » Women's Narrative » Personal Stories » Dealing with Challenge
A Blessed Day    Poem
By Shirley Coles
For a few moments, Lila and the seagull looked at each other, nothing more. And then, with a great flapping of his wings, the gull took to the sky. If she expected gratitude, there was none forthcoming, but it almost seemed as if her heart took flight ...
The Jewish Woman » Readers Write » Poetry » Poems about Expression
Never Forgive or Forget    Story
By Shirley Coles
He released his wife's hand, tapped my wrist as though to say, look, and pulled back his jacket sleeve just enough to show me that tattooed on his veiny, wrinkled skin were the numbers almost every living Jew recognizes...
The Jewish Woman » Women's Narrative » Personal Stories » Life Lessons
Who Am I?  
By Shirley Coles
During those many years, when asked who I was, or when being introduced to others, there was that long list of roles from which to select and identify the woman I had become. As a widow now, the list of the roles I play has become shorter and shorter...
The Jewish Woman » Women's Narrative » Editorial & Commentary
Life After Loss  My Husband's First Yahrtzeit  Story
By Shirley Coles
One year ago, my two sons, one daughter and I stood at his bedside to say goodbye to the man who had been the mainstay of our family...
The Jewish Woman » Women's Narrative » Personal Stories » Dealing with Challenge
The Gift of Humor    Humor
By Shirley Coles
I never cease to marvel how, along with the terror and the misery, we have produced a multitude of comics who set the groundwork for courage through humor...
The Jewish Woman » Readers Write » Writing » Humor
The Sandwich Generation  
By Shirley Coles
As filling in this generational sandwich, I am constantly tested as well as blessed. Both my mother and my daughter color my life in different ways...
The Jewish Woman » Childrearing » Joys and Challenges
The Heart of a Jewish Woman  
By Shirley Coles
Her mother had given her a Jewish soul. But it was these four parents of her parents who reached across a generation to give her the gift of a Jewish heart...
The Jewish Woman » Childrearing » Grandmothers
Mama's Home  
By Shirley Coles
There is little more painful than having to step up and watch the helplessness and anxiety of a surviving elderly parent...
The Jewish Woman » Childrearing » Our Mothers

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