Life
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Age Before Beauty?
There are plenty of things about getting older that I am learning to live with gracefully — grey hair, the emergence of wrinkles (I think of them as advanced laugh lines), and the ungodly amount of thought I put into my daily fiber intake. But shouldn't there be some sort of cosmic balance that ensures
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Life Lessons
To add to the list of Things I Will Apparently Never Learn: If you are sick, it is best to take it easy and get plenty of rest, otherwise you will be sick three times longer than you would have if you just took it easy and got plenty of rest. Sigh.
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Rant of the Day
Please stop sending me emails with that damn red exclamation point !. If it's that important, CALL ME — I get hundreds of email per day and no stupid red exclamation point is going to make me read your email first or drop what I'm in the middle of doing to handle whatever it is
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I am SUCH a Girl
Actually, I'm generally not one of those girly-girls. I do like to keep my toenails painted, but I'm not so great about manicures. I am by no means a shop-a-holic or a clothes horse and I can't handle spending a lot of money on purses. I don't tend to wear a lot of makeup, but
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Weekend Wrapup
Evoe "Cocktails de Paris" event with @Daisy17 & @Cocktailspirit followed by red sauce dinner at Bread Tribeca; First Skype to Skype call (free! yay!), workout, "The Foodie's Dilemma" Times Talks panel with Mom, featuring Bobby Flay, Daniel Humm, Alex Guarnaschelli and moderated by Frank Bruni, the 11th Annual Epicurian Dive Bar Crawl; a run in
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Ten Before the Tri
#drop10beforetri I've told some of my friends and family in person, but I have another goal to hit before the triathlon. I'd like to drop 10 pounds. These 10 pounds have crept on over the past 10 years, an average of one pound per year, which isn't bad, but I figure if I have the
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Crickets
Sorry for the quiet around here, kids — I've been feeling a tad sluggish this week for various reasons: change of season (for good, I hope), ramping up the triathlon training, visiting spots for upcoming columns, etc. Real post to come this weekend. In the meantime, you'll have to make do with my Serious Eats
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Inspiration
Every year when I return from the Pro Bono Institute, I'm re-energized and full of good ideas for enhancing our pro bono program. Much of this is due to being surrounded by my enthusiastic colleagues who attend the conference each year. But I am also inspired by two great women who I always feel are
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Early to Bed, Early to Rise?
As much as I want to shift my body clock, going to bed early seems to have little to no impact on my ability to wake up bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. I have trouble falling asleep before 11:30 – 12 and even if I do somehow managed to fall asleep earlier than that, it's rare that