I will go on record as saying that the worst day of the year to drag my bones into the office was always the Friday after Thanksgiving.
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11/21/13
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We’ll have to wait 77,798 years to face the same challenge we’ll confront this very month — a perfect culinary storm of biblical proportions.
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11/14/13
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Last week, life and art and politics collided, not for most folks, but for me as I moved through my days.
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11/7/13
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It is Oct. 31, 1951, a bitterly cold Halloween. My mother and I are rushing home from the neighborhood bakery in the late afternoon.
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10/31/13
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Have you noticed the frenzied activity in your yard by the bushy long-tailed crowd?
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10/24/13
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When I asked Jacob, 8, what he learned in Hebrew School this week, he told me that Eve actually ate a pomegranate in the Garden of “Egypt.” Hmm.
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10/17/13
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This is a family story. I get to tell it because I write a column, and I’m the big sister.
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10/10/13
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It used to be respectable, even desirable, for someone who was sneezing and coughing and spewing germs to stay home until the siege passes.
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10/3/13
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The very word “French” has its connotations, of cancans and certain kinds of kisses and naughty movies, not to mention postcards.
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9/26/13
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You know who you are. You’ve seen a great movie and you want to share the joy. You fairly bubble with enthusiasm. You ask if I’ve seen it. I say no.
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9/19/13
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