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  • Paris
    “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” Hemingway
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  • Busby Berkeley Dreams
    We still dance on whirling stages in my Busby Berkeley Dreams
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  • Divorce in a Patriarchy ( I Prefer Divorce in a Pastry-Archy)
    Patriarchy? Does the Patriarchy still exist, you ask? I’ll let you be the judge. So let’s start with the fact that I just finished house hunting and started wondering why the big bedroom in every house is called the “Master”. Why? Why isn’t it called the “Mistress?” Or better yet,
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  • Finding My Own Invincible Summer
    This morning I woke up to rain and went outside to drag in all my patio cushions, and the air smelled salty, like the sea, and I thought, “I really don’t want to be spending my time doing this. I want to be writing, baking, exercising, packing for our upcoming
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  • Boston Globe Letter on Education
    I’m thrilled that the Boston Globe printed my piece on the very exciting innovations happening in education due to the pandemic, but why isn’t the state on board? Here it is: LETTERS Efforts to innovate in home learning need state boost, not roadblocks Updated August 19, 2020, 7:15 a.m. This is
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  • Have You Ever Wrestled with a Rainbow Unicorn? How About a Hegelian Dialectic? Or an Ancient Text?
    This morning I woke up to the scent of baking bread and literally floated down the stairs on a cloud of cinnamon. My house guest, Alma Luce is a stress-baker, meaning this morning, she made three loaves of braided cinnamon-sugar challah bread, black beans and rice and molasses cookies. Alma
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  • Traveling to Burgundy with Teenagers
    Last summer I turned 50 and took my teenagers and my niece on my dream trip to Europe. So far, I have blogged about Venice, the Orient Express, and our road trip from Paris to Chateau Des Milandes in the Dordogne Region. At the end of our trip, we drove
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  • Venice: Land of Dreams
    It’s been a really tough couple of years for our family, between losing my father to cancer, my best friend to suicide, and my husband to one of those mid-life crisis meltdowns that tries annihilate the entire family. At a loss for how to survive it all, I turned to
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  • Looking for Clarity on a Foggy Morning
    I woke up feeling blue. I stumbled through my usual routine: grateful list, brush teeth, comb hair, put on mascara, fold laundry from last night and start the next load, toddle downstairs for a cappuccino, water my flowers… As I was watering, I listened to the birds chirping and watched
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