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Monday, April 16, 2018

What James Comey got wrong

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During the interview by George Stephanopoulos broadcast by ABC last night, James Comey spoke with calm dignity about the man who fired him...
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Tuesday, April 3, 2018

THE DISCOVERY OF CHOCOLATE by James Runcie, with 2 ways to make chocolate cake as God intended

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Five years ago I learned about  Cook the Books , an online book club featuring not only books about food, but people who read those books ...
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Friday, March 23, 2018

EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON: AND OTHER LIES I'VE LOVED, by Kate Bowler

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I asked Google to find the cover of the book I'm about to praise. "Everything happens for a reason," I typed, and clicked ...
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Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Midlife: the best of all possible ages?

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The other day a friend of mine, who is 45, was offended when someone referred to her as middle aged. This seems odd, since female life ...
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Monday, March 5, 2018

Remains of the Day

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A Nor'easter swept through Baltimore on Friday, uprooting trees and downing power lines as it went through. Our lights went out at 2...
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Thursday, February 1, 2018

THE NATURE OF THE BEAST by Louise Penny: a chilling conversation

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I love Louise Penny 's novels about Three Pines, Québec: a Brigadoon-like village near the Vermont border full of friendship, good foo...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2017

A Trump wall everyone will love

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Here's an idea for President Trump and his supporters. Let's build an impenetrable border wall around maybe a third of the United ...
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