Toxic Purity
Recently my husband shared with me an article by Mike McQuade in the New York Times, the gist of which was that the cleaner we make our environment, the less Continue Reading →
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For Writers: Exercise In Your Genre
“Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.” — Ernest Hemingway reddit.com Hemingway made it a habit to stand while writing. So did Continue Reading →
When Did My Nose Decide It Hates Me?
Actually, I know when it started. I began my long-anticipated winter break, one of the primo perks of a job in education, on December 19. On December 20, my nose Continue Reading →
A New Year’s Invitation I’ll Decline
Out with the old, in with the new. And you know what has gotten really, really old in the past year or two or three? Division. And I don’t mean Continue Reading →
It’s Not Just Lunch
Shortly after I married my first (late, not ex) husband Richard I was introduced to a holiday ritual, the West Hollywood Ararat Guild Annual Luncheon. Richard’s family was Armenian-American, a Continue Reading →