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Elizabeth Edwards: A Survivor Even in Death

She lost her son in a car accident;  just the beginning of the series of shocks that rocked what once seemed a fairy tale life.  The ending of that life is as far as you can get from a fairy tale. I can’t stop thinking about her, although my brain won’t even allow me to […]

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The Appli-cation of Inspiration

It’s right outside our bedroom window but for the first two years we lived in our house I had no idea it was there. Like Isaac Newton, I practically had to be hit on the head to discover there were apples in one of our trees.    Not just apples; hundreds of them,  many already dropping […]

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The Age and the Art of Perfection

She could use a little work, don’t you think? Definitely a nose job.  Plump the lips.   And she sure could stand to hit the gym and lose a few pounds. A woman today who looks like Mona Lisa is more likely to be skewered, not celebrated. What a world—–that anyone could come up with Bridalplasty, […]

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From Life-Bored to LifeBoard

I was 15 and bored.  Who knew? Ever since I had cancer, I look back and wish I had paid more attention my sophomore year of high school, when I could should have been learning –about life. That high school year of Biology was the only class—and the last class– I would ever take in […]

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Giving Thanks for Jennifer Grey

Thanks for putting the mirror ball trophy in your daughter’s room—instead of Sarah Palin’s daughter’s room. Thanks for demonstrating that drama queens can be adorable— and not just annoying. Thanks for changing what it means to “go grey.” Thanks for proving Jewish women can be hot to and trot. Thanks for personifying resilience. Thanks to […]

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Two places at once

The Pilgrims couldn’t possibly predict that such a wonderful holiday can turn into such a headache.   I don’t mean cooking and Thanksgiving disasters, I mean the stuff-ing that’s not related to food….but related to us: families.  And the most common lament I hear lately:  although holidays bring families together, they also tear families apart. We […]

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