Tag: living
member name: Cynthia C.
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August 18, 2006 06:55 PM EDT --
While the religious right eats away at the edges of American culture I had thought their influence on education, particularly science education, was confined, primarily to Kansas, where we get to watch . . .
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August 18, 2006 08:19 AM EDT --
It's only been a few hours since some fast acting doctors saved my life. Robin, Bill, RG and his new friend hung around my bedside for awhile. It's now evening. Visiting hours are over. Everyone . . .
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August 31, 2006 08:02 AM EDT --
Not only is this possible, if you could read people's minds, I'd bet you would find this is the norm rather than the exception to the rule. Wouldn't you really rather have all the people that . . .
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April 15, 2007 02:36 PM EDT --
We try to ignore it as we go about the humdrum routines of our daily life, those routines that help us feel all is comfortingly "normal". But suddenly (even if we know it's coming, when it . . .
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September 04, 2006 03:57 PM EDT --
When my husband, Pete was the track coach and sports information director at MIT (this was in the 1970's), his boss, the head of the Athletic Department, led two lives. We were the only couple on his . . .
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July 16, 2006 06:53 AM EDT --
A talented young filmmaker called me the other day to discuss a new project he's developing about the relationship of humans to their dogs. When I'm in Maine next week to teach my class on the . . .
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August 14, 2006 07:37 PM EDT --
Pregnancy was a condition I tried to avoid but my body would thwart me. The only truly, 100% successful form of birth control that I had experience with was THE PILL. It protected me throughout my sexually . . .
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October 21, 2006 01:51 PM EDT --
Two stories, a few pages apart in today's New York Times brings home, yet again, the complete moral and ethical blindness, in concert with the Republican Party, of the Catholic Church. All decisions . . .
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November 08, 2006 08:42 AM EST --
How do you resolve the fact that at least 60% of married woman confess to having had at least one affair (as reported in a recent study by gender studies professor Susan Shapiro Barash) and 90% of them . . .
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June 25, 2006 09:32 AM EDT --
There's a new biography out on Timothy Leary by Robert Greenfield. It's reviewed by Luc Sante on the cover of today's New York Times book section. There's a great image of a grinning Leary, . . .
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August 12, 2006 10:08 AM EDT --
At 14 Erika was a stunner. She was my daughter, and I didn't see it coming. I figured it out when we would walk down the street together and I saw guys swivel their heads so far around I thought they'd . . .
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July 25, 2006 07:15 AM EDT --
My staff thought I'd been kidnapped, or worse. The last time they saw me was when RG picked me up at my office for our first "let's do lunch" date. There is always tittering and speculation . . .
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September 02, 2006 06:13 PM EDT --
The east entrance to Yellowstone Park is 52 miles from Cody. The legend of Buffalo Bill, cowboys and Indians, and RG's brothers and sister awaited me there. RG's mom was driving and we would take . . .
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September 14, 2006 07:19 AM EDT --
How can you really know another person? Sex is one way, but we usually learn very little during sex. Talking is another possibility, but often the words float by, some are grabbed and remembered, others . . .
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October 09, 2006 07:50 AM EDT --
Has anyone ever died in a sauna? That was my first thought as I sat with my bare butt resting on a WAY too small towel. I was the only woman in the group this time. Sitting on the middle level of a 3 tiered . . .
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June 04, 2007 11:09 AM EDT --
Last night, cold rain, RG and I went running around 10 p.m. If someone had told me two years ago that on a cold, rainy night in November 1985 I'd be wearing a pair of NIKE'S, running three miles . . .
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November 06, 2006 08:33 AM EST --
My mother and grandmother both ironed their sheets. The only time the beds in their homes were unmade was if someone was sleeping in them. As soon as they got up in the morning, the first thing they did . . .
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March 15, 2007 07:37 AM EDT --
"How To..." posts are not my bag. (Neither are "how to..." videos. My company does not distribute any.) Those who read me might think I didn't even write this. HOWEVER, yesterday . . .
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October 26, 2007 08:19 AM EDT --
There appears to a feral cat population explosion at J.F.K Airport that is causing serious health problems, unsafe and unsanitary conditions, and on the brink of causing potential aircraft accidents. . . .
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May 21, 2006 07:26 PM EDT --
This is the title of the new book by the Pulitzer Prize- winning author of Guns Germs and Steel. I had no intention of writing another post today but this demanded attention. The book is about the trajectory, . . .
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