HOSTILE RESTING FACE Photo Courtesy of David Veksler 0:00 / 0:00 Hostile Resting Face Years ago, I worked as the program director of the Injury Prevention Resource and Research Center at Dartmouth Medical School. As part of my job, I lobbied for car seat/seat belt legislation in New Hampshire, a state whose motto is Live […]
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THE CONCEPT OF SKEEVY Photo Courtesy of Nathan Dumlao 0:00 / 0:00 Skeevy As far as I know, all of my maternal Italian American ancestors survived the pandemic of 1918. My theory is that they beat the Spanish flu because they governed their lives by the hygienic principles of skeevy. The word skeevy is Italian
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THE SIX NEEDS OF EVERY CHILDINTERVIEW My friends, Amy and Jeffrey Olrick have just come out with a new book called, The 6 Needs of Every Child. I wish I could have read it while I was raising children. Here is an interview with the Olricks: This is a hard time for families. You’ve
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GENIUS Photo Courtesy of Lance Grandahl 0:00 / 0:00 Genius My seventh grade French teacher, Mr. Cook (name changed), was a bona fide genius. Or, so he told us every day, for ten months straight. We happened to be his first teaching job right out of a top-notch university. He said some strange twist of
LOCALLY SOURCED PET TO TABLE DINING 0:00 / 0:00 Pet to Table Dining Growing up, I desperately wanted a pet. We lived in a tenement bordered by an asphalt driveway in the back and a concrete sidewalk in the front. Our apartment was so tiny that we needed only a cook stove to heat the
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DON”T GRAB THE STICK 0:00 / 0:00 Don't Grab the Stick Once, as I waited for my husband, Bruce, outside the door of a Trader Joe’s in Manhattan, a blond-haired man walked up and stood uncomfortably close to me, definitely well within my personal space. He looked as if he’d stepped out of a Brooks
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BLUE JAYMOVIE REVIEW This made-for-Netflix indie movie is filmed in black and white, shows only two characters on screen, is slow-ish and has no soundtrack, except for a few tunes. Normally, that would be the kiss of death for me—I’d rather watch car insurance commercials or those pharmaceutical ads where they tell you how great
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ITALIAN SOUL FOODRECIPE How is your garden growing? Got tomatoes? Do you have more than you can use? If so, here is a recipe for you. It’s a quick tomato sauce that can accompany pasta, ravioli, pizza, shrimp and can be a base for any bean or squash dish—really you can use it on whatever your little
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FETCH A CALLING STARA BEDTIME STORY Photo Courtesy of Vrankar Klemen 0:00 / 0:00 Fetch A Calling Star FETCH A CALLING STAR, a bedtime story for children, was published in an anthology called Nightlight. FETCH A CALLING STAR Late one night Under the eaves In a beach cottage with no beach breeze, I
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THE SIXTY-FIVE DOLLAR QUESTION 0:00 / 0:00 The Sixty-Five Dollar Question This essay aired on this NPR-member station and appeared in The Washington Post. THE SIXTY-FIVE DOLLAR QUESTION The last time my folks visited, our whole family swapped tales around the dining table. Our topic? Marriage proposals: who proposed to whom and how. My husband, Bruce,
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