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Jim Daniels: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_______________________________________________________ Obedience School Near the end, the experts on loss sold us a robot dog that barked and leaned into the touch to give comfort to my blind dying mother.…
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The Death of FDR: April 12, 1945
Unfinished portrait of FDR by artist Elizabeth Shoumatoff (1888-1980), April 12, 1945 << President Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945. He had been inaugurated on January 20th for his unprecedented fourth term as president.…
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An Autobiography in Cookbooks: The Culinary Arts Institute Encyclopedic Cookbook © 1948 [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
My mother received this cookbook as a wedding gift and passed it on to me many years ago. It remains one of my favorites, not because of the recipes though there are some good…
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Quantum Entanglement Revealed! Jeanne Alechinsky’s “Ghosts” is on to something [By Tracy Danison]
“Ghosts” cast: Jeanne Alechinsky, background, with musician collaborators Jacques Salamaka and Julie Appéré. Photo © Isabelle Chemin, Paramour Compagnie, 2025 My next-to-eldest brother, Joe, now deceased, said of our childhood house that a body…
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The Last Shall Be First [by David Lehman]
Next Line, Please By David Lehman | November 25, 2014 We love last lines. The endings of favorite novels enter the mind and lodge there. Scott Fitzgerald’s majestic conclusion of The Great Gatsby is a favorite: “So we…
