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Friday, June 14, 2013

COOKED by Michael Pollan

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Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. --Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food In The Omnivore's Dilemma (2006) , science journalist Micha...
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Monday, June 10, 2013

J. Alfred Prufrock contemplates retirement

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There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; There will be time to murder and create, ...
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Thursday, May 30, 2013

CATASTROPHIC CARE: HOW AMERICAN HEALTH CARE KILLED MY FATHER--AND HOW WE CAN FIX IT by David Goldhill

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This week the company my husband works for unveiled the health-insurance plans available to us beginning July 1. If we chose the plan closes...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

MIDNIGHT AT MARBLE ARCH by Anne Perry

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Some 20 years ago a friend lent me a stack of Anne Perry novels--all in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series, as I recall--which I eagerly ...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013

THE MOONLIGHT SONATA AT THE MAYO CLINIC by Nora Gallagher

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Ten years ago Nora Gallagher wrote Practicing Resurrection , a memoir involving her brother's death, her Episcopal parish's response...
Friday, May 17, 2013

Money: The God of This World

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This week Pope Francis spoke out against the cult of money. Here is how Catholic News Service's Carol Glatz summarized his remarks : ...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

THE GOLDEN EGG by Donna Leon

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If you're already a Donna Leon fan, all I need to tell you is that the 22nd Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery was published March 26. I...