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Tuesday, October 3, 2017

THE BRIGHT HOUR by Nina Riggs

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Ancient Egyptians brought skeletons to their feasts, exhorting guests to drink and make merry while they still could. American Puritans in...
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Monday, October 2, 2017

10 reasons I'm giving up Facebook

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Some of my friends use Facebook judiciously. Some, like me, spend far too much time on it. And clearly some, also like me, feel worse and ...
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Thursday, August 3, 2017

RIP editor Judith Jones: She brought us Anne Frank, Julia Child, and many others

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[Jones & Child; photo by Boston Globe ] From yesterday's New York Times : Judith Jones, the editor who discovered Julia Child a...
Sunday, July 23, 2017

RIP Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, 30 May 2000 (more or less) - 22 July 2017

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Tiggy yesterday morning The rescue ladies weren’t sure we deserved Tiggy. Her first two years had been rough. Someone had taken her to...
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Friday, May 12, 2017

How to get perfect avocados nearly every time (public service announcement)

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California Girl here. Been eating avocados voraciously for over 65 years. Could have started even younger: some of my grandbabies, as it h...
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How to fix an avocado without drawing blood (public service announcement)

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From what I read online, apparently a lot of people are cutting themselves wide open while merely trying to fix guacamole. This is fooli...
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Saturday, May 6, 2017

A healthcare system that works - is it too much to ask?

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[William Blake, Pestilence , c. 1780-84] Most of my Facebook friends are proclaiming the evils of the AHCA, the new GOP healthcare bill....
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