Tag: people
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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August 12, 2007 10:56 AM EDT --
During WWII, as B17 pilot at the age of 19, I doubt my Dad felt like he was dying. Although death stalked him every time he got into the cockpit of that plane the few photos I have of him from that time . . .
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July 01, 2006 08:30 AM EDT --
Before the last election and before the Bush-man declared war on Iraq I was full of rage and convinced that political activism was still alive and well in this country. I rode the buses to Washington then . . .
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August 24, 2006 08:43 AM EDT --
It was around midnight last night when I asked RG to take Cassidy for her final walk of the day. The downstairs door had barely slammed shut when I knew a disaster had occurred. Our entire apartment, plus . . .
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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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April 18, 2007 08:29 AM EDT --
Like a really bad hang-over we wake up this morning and see from the headlines in todays papers the killing rampage that went on at Virginia Tech on Monday morning was not something we imagined, . . .
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September 29, 2007 10:27 AM EDT --
It was ironic that on page 10 of todays NYTimes we find the lead story about Jenna Bush, the prez's party girl daughter and twin sister of Barbara, touting her new book about "children of exclusion", . . .
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December 13, 2007 06:34 AM EST --
The green glass ball was the size of a very large grapefruit. It was an odd, sort of warm shade of green with hints of gold and surprisingly heavy, which implies a certain robust quality that may help . . .
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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 04, 2006 08:56 AM EDT --
Some people are clueless about how to close a deal.
Last week while I was teaching at the film and photography workshops in Rockport Maine I walked by a young photographer with some prints laid out on . . .
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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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August 23, 2006 08:07 AM EDT --
How many of you have been the object of a stalker's attention in real life?
I met Billy S. at a party I was attending with RG and some of our mutual friends. When RG and I go out we do not stick . . .
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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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August 24, 2006 07:27 PM EDT --
After 102 comments and still counting on my last post covering this topic, I could not believe my luck in today's NYTimes, yet more ammunition to indicate that our country is being dragged back to . . .
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