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Continue readingOUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched.
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Continue readingAuthors confess to books they’d kick out of the canon Slate Magazine http://ow.ly/64NpJ
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Continue readingI’ve been MIA this week as summer took over. Less than a month left and so much to do with kids and Web of Angels. Do you like the cover? I’m really happy with it! I got the page design last week and it’s just lovely. Before my first book came out, I had no […]
Continue readingHere we report 18 cases of adoption, a highly costly behavior, of orphaned youngsters by group members in Taï forest chimpanzees. Half of the adoptions were done by males and remarkably only one of these proved to be the father. Such adoptions by adults can last for years and thus imply extensive care towards the […]
Continue readingYesterday I saw a 3D movie and it was gorgeous. This is how it came about. My dear sister-in-law and her boyfriend were intending to take my kids to Canada’s Wonderland on Saturday but changed their plans due to an uncertain weather forecast. As it turned out, Saturday was a beautiful day, albeit warm, a […]
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new study shows how voter reactions differ according to which form of past tense is used! http://ow.ly/5WP76
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Continue readingThe other day, A and I were talking about our kids. One thing led to another as it does, and soon we were talking about patriarchy and matriarchy. A, who has an encyclopedic knowledge (his nickname is Mr. Peabody though he is much cuter), told me about the Naxi (also spelled Nakhi) and the sub-group […]
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By turns gripping and charming: photos around the world in one day. Click on the link above.
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Continue reading“Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes.” Oliver Sacks. Oliver Sacks, now 77, has been a New York neurologist since 1965 and an author for 40 years. The Mind’s Eye is his […]
Continue readingThe Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim tells the story of four women in the early 1920′s who share a small, remote Italian castle for a month, and in doing so their lives forever change. The women range in age from late 20′s to early 60′s. Each of them has a central problem that has […]
Continue readingJack Layton is a rare politician: a man of dignity, decency, and optimism, respected by all parties. For my non-Canadian friends, this is the man who led the left-leaning NDP party from a handful of seats to form the official opposition in parliament, a man who surprised everyone this election, sweeping the province of Quebec […]
Continue readingI won’t give the right-wing murderer a platform and I won’t satisfy his zest for notoriety by naming him. Instead I want to send my heart-felt thoughts and sympathies to the people of Norway and to the families who are mourning. I stand with them for love, tolerance, and openness. That is what needs voice […]
Continue readingI’m a new woman! The heat took its toll. The only way I could tell the difference between a hot flash and hot air was that I needed 2 ice packs vs 1 to keep from turning into a puddle. My good humour about the whole situation deteriorated until poor A fled to look for […]
Continue reading[Jane] Levikow was in the gallery with her partner when she noticed a young lesbian couple in heated conversation with a security guard. “They were holding hands,” Levikow said, “and he told them they couldn’t hold hands in the museum.” via sfgate.com The irony? The featured exhibit was the “evolving public personae, lifestyle, and relationships,” […]
Continue readingLast Friday and Saturday morning, before higher temperatures required me to do nothing but lie on the couch and read, A and I got up at 6:00 am to hike. We walked eastward along the railroad tracks to Carruthers’ Woods, from there to an abandoned railway track, down to the Brick Works, and along the […]
Continue readingGood summary of the marketing and financial decisions that led to Boarder’s bankruptcy http://ow.ly/5Jds3
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