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JULY 9, 2010 3:22PM

I'll Be Up In A Minute

One of the many things to love about Europe is the cemeteries. Not that I don't appreciate the world of its living -- museums, architecture, cuisine, languages, you name it -- but Europeans do, with their eons of history, have a certain knack, a je ne sais

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OCTOBER 13, 2009 8:58AM

Why No Nobel Prize in Fashion?

The Nobel Prize Committee has been handing out awards like candy this past week -- and that was quite a sugar-coated jaw breaker for Barack Obama -- but I just don't understand why there is never a recipient from the fashion world.

That said, it has been quite a year for… Read full post »

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JUNE 11, 2009 10:14AM

Beware the Porta Potties of France

Everyone dreams of visiting the elegant castles of the Loire Valley in central France.

That was also our dream when my husband and I took a fast train from Gare Montparnasse in Paris to the city of Angers, which sits at the center of the Loire's famous chateau country.

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JUNE 1, 2009 12:42PM

Waiting On Mel Gibson

With Mel Gibson in the news lately -- thanks to his recent divorce and pregnant girlfriend -- I can't help but fondly remember the one and only time I served him dinner in Santa Fe.

I had been freelancing for NPR and local publications and was worn out from the daily… Read full post »

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MAY 11, 2009 2:04PM

Getting Whipped in Kazakhstan

Sometimes we end up in a strange land and we have only the American taxpayer to thank.

When I contacted the renowned journalist Pierre Salinger in Washington -- whom I'd met some years earlier -- I hoped he might hire me at his public relations agency, one of the… Read full post »

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APRIL 2, 2009 11:50AM

To Mammogram or Not to Mammogram?

One pesky item has been sitting on my daily to-do list since November of 2007 and no matter how much time I have during a given day, I just never get around to crossing it off. Get thee to a radiology clinic, it says, and get thee your annual mammogram --/…

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MARCH 13, 2009 1:52PM

The Heart and Sweat of Dexter Gordon

I was 25-years old and dressed in my favorite outfit -- a dark blue top and short skirt that fit snuggly and was, if I do say so myself, not unflattering. I had taken extra care to curl my short hair around my cheeks and on my feet wore light green/…

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MARCH 7, 2009 1:48PM

Could Have Ended Badly in Soviet Arctic

Perhaps it would have been fitting -- in some macabre way -- to have gone down with that Aeroflot helicopter in a land so replete with death, where the earth had been toughened by the bones and soaked with the blood of millions of gulag prisoners going back at least a… Read full post »

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FEBRUARY 6, 2009 12:30PM

Stimulate or not?

I wish I had a strong feeling one way or the other about President Obama's -- and therefore all Americans' -- stimulus package.

I read as many thoughtful articles on the topic as possible but I still end up with a shrug. Similar but much smaller bills may have been effective in/…

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