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I’ve been working on maps recently. It all started with Lara Trump. A few weeks ago she suggested that the average American would need to Google “Who are…
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I just ate the most expensive meal of the year.It all started back in May. One Saturday, in a fit of yard care, I decided it was time to dig up our old…
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A few weeks ago, I had the chance to sit in on a singing lesson with a well-known voice teacher. It was like stepping back in time. The walls of her…
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It’s a rainy Sunday, and I have dragged my adult daughter to an origami class. It is, after all, her birthday; and in our family, we really know how to…
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We have a lot of speakers in the theater. Not the lecturing, human kind (although we get our share of those, too). I’m talking about music speakers, the…
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Maybe it’s the time of year, maybe it’s the colder weather…. But all of a sudden, a number of the people around me have taken a great interest in hot tea.…
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I’d forgotten what it’s like to look for your first apartment. It’s been a week of living in borrowed spaces. Days pounding the pavement, exploring…
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Why don’t the toilets stink at the library? It’s Labor Day weekend. A holiday set aside to celebrate the contributions of the labor movement and of labor…
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It’s been a month of irrational exuberance in our household.I’m speaking of course of soccer. And it’s completely irrational. To be an England soccer fan…
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Last year, my grandma died, my dad died, my car died, and my dog died. Out of all of these, the one I had the most trouble mourning was the dog. This is…