Life
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Smart is Good
Marriage Rates Rise for Educated Women. “Women with three years of graduate school . . . have bucked the declining trend. For them the marriage rate has actually increased by 3 percentage points, to 86 percent.” Good to know that my 3 years at NYU Law might have helped something in addition to my career.
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Love’s Letters Lost
Although I never lived up in Portland, my Dad’s house there still is home to a great deal of my memorabilia — high school and college yearbooks, childhood books, programs from plays I was in over the years. Also, in a drawer, are two shoeboxes, each filled with mementos of a romantic relationship. One of
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Gefilte Dog, or What I Like About Jew, Take Two
This weekend, I am off to Portland, Maine, for Passover. Sadly, I will be missing my monthly wine club society meeting — we meet the first Sunday of every month. When I told my neighbor, who organizes the wine club society, that I would be home for Passover, he responded, correctly, “but Passover’s on Monday.”
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Schadenfreude in TV Land
Now, I’m not a big TV watcher these days. Sure, every now and again I’ll flip on the tube for a little while, but I’m usually doing just that — flipping. Maybe I’ll stumble upon a good movie, watch something on the Food Network, or even succumb to the guilty pleasures of MTV reality-show trash.
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Spring Has Sprung
No really. It has. How do I know this? Because yesterday, I took my bike out for her inaugural spin of the season. Granted, I was freezing, so I only rode up on to Chelsea Piers and back — all said and done about 20 minutes — but I took ‘er out nonetheless. There are
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The City of
Brotherly LoveCured MeatsI had a wonderful time in Philadelphia this weekend. And yes, I got my provolone with. But — that was hardly the highlight of the weekend, culinary or otherwise. Although I don’t think I’d ever want to live in Philly, it was certainly a good place to visit. My favorite way to learn about a
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The Need for Speed
I found out recently that a friend of mine will be competing in the Aicha des Gazelles, a non-professional, women’s road rally race through the Moroccan desert. They must cover over 1500 km in 8 days, off road, without GPS or roadbooks. She is teaming up with her sister to form Team USA, and they
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Mutually Exclusive?
I sure hope not. Personally, I think there’s room for both in my life, loser that I am . . . Courtesy of Gaping Void
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Moving to Brooklyn?
Apparently, for all of you out there who have been gunning for me to move to Brooklyn, there may be yet another reason for me to move out there. According to “The Sexual Organization of the City,” (which is based on Chicago, but has been analyzed by the New York Post for NYC), some neighborhoods