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Scooped!

It took me forever to get my post on Animal finished. In the meantime, we got scooped by the New Yorker. That’ll teach me to dilly dally.

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This is the very image of happiness, what some would call a shit-eating grin: This is Eliza savoring her favorite–I’m not exaggerating–her favorite thing to eat. That’s right. More than anything else in the world, Eliza loves veggie burritos from Willy’s in Atlanta. Every time we go back, she insists on eating there twice. It’s [...]

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Not that I dislike the beach, but I just like the way this guy Phillip Lopate thinks: “The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and ‘have [...]

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Hini Flu Fever

I work at a boarding school and H1N1 has taken a toll on our population in the last couple of weeks – 15% of our kids have been sick. Fortunately, it seems to have cycled through and folks are feeling better now. However, we remain at Orange Level alert. Like Homeland Security has for terrorism, [...]

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What’s My Name?

Alright, I admit it. I have now been married to Ben for almost a year and I still haven’t legally changed my name. I decided a long time ago that that changing my name would be more of an aesthetic decision than a political one. Lucky for me, I always wanted a “Mc” name. I [...]

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