Liquid Cancer in a Bottle

My cleaning lady arrived the other day with her mop, dusting rag, and some sound advice about food. When it comes to that subject, she seems to know her stuff. So, as I readied to pour the dressing on my salad, I listened with interest to what she had to say. “Some salad dressings aren’t […]

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An NGO Cut Becomes Personal

We were having dinner with some new friends when the wife told us about her daughter who had lost her job. Just like that it was gone. She worked for an NGO in a foreign country. She and her children love where they live and she seemed to like her job, my friend said. Her

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Gumming Up the Oscars

Who is Gilberto Coronel I wondered as I read his glowing, over-the-top story about Adrien Brody’s acceptance speech at the Oscar’s ceremony on Sunday? Brody was named best actor just about the time I was thinking about heading off to bed. Gilberto seemed to think it was a speech for the ages. He wrote: “Adrien

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A Post from ‘The Post’

A Facebook friend shared an article from The Washington Post on Sunday. I couldn’t read it because I’m not a subscriber. I thought she wasn’t either—anymore. So I checked. On October 25 she made a big deal out of telling everyone who reads her social media posts that she’d cancelled her subscription. She ended her

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Just Tell Me the Facts

My man called the contractor who is remodeling our condo yesterday morning to ask if anything could be done to speed up progress on our unit. It’s been ten months for a job that was estimated to take six. The response was nothing. I mean he didn’t return the call and say “Sorry, nothing can

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Bonkers Over Bass Weejuns

I scrimped together the money for my first pair of Bass Weejuns when I was a senior in college and working part-time at Nathan Hale’s in Bloomington, Indiana. Those $12.95 navy penny loafers took me to a level of cool that I never again attained. Until now. A couple of days ago, I posted a

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