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Ripeness Is All
My friend's apocalypse, in which her son has been rendered paraplegic two weeks before his college graduation, has real resonance for those of us who decided years ago, not to breed.
One lesson of that is work, with more courage, vision and innovation. The second is, as Virginia Woolf, the queen of modernity and loss, wrote: Never pretend that what ( Read more... ) -
In My End Is My Beginning
Every day and night I pray to release obstacles to my heart's desire.*
I have said goodbye to two people this week, people I was apparently counting on. And which I apparently was wrong to do so. I have been thinking about the formative book by Anthony Storr, Solitude, which contains at least two of the principles of the much less interesting voc ( Read more... ) -
Fashion Police: The Bride Unveiled
I have been married twice, once at 23 in church, to somebody my own age, and once at 30 in the courthouse, to someone 13 years older. Both outfits were carefully chosen. I was amused to see another bride of my vintage, the Parker Bowles, reiterate the unspoken rules I followed on both occasions when she married Prince Charles -- once at the ( Read more... ) -
Miles to Go Before I Sleep
I just wanted to say I am shocked at how little people lay in stores for forty years of old age. It is a serious problem, and not just for us as individuals ( Read more... ) -
Stop the Arizona birth control bill
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Healthy Lunch Meat Chronicles
This is my quest, for budget, health and happiness, in 2012. I don't want to fall back on purchased lunch meat or leftovers, but rather to have something special for lunch, with an emphasis on omega threes and greens. The previous fallback has been home-roasted org turkey breast, which is very easy and which I'm very fond of, but which can be ( Read more... ) -
Bay Ridge, 1976
This was only slightly less electrifying than the original New York magazine story.
http://nymag.com/nightlife/features/45933/
Nik Cohn sort of made the whole story up.
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The silence here is overwhelming.
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