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My love involves the love before;My love is vaster passion now;Tho’ mix’d with God and Nature thou,I seem to love thee more and more.” –from “In Memoriam” by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Not long ago, my foodie friend Laura (a gifted graduate of the Culinary Institute of America) held up the serving of dinner at a small dinner party because her husband was on his way home with precisely the right kind of salt. The January 23rd issue of Newsweek says that Morton’s Iodized Salt (the one…

“Who is the audience for this thing?” my 91-year-old father asked, trying to show interest but clearly perplexed. I had my laptop out, and I was kneeling beside him, scrolling through my weblog, stopping at items he might like. He awkwardly leaned forward to read through his bifocals, and I kept adjusting the angle of…

Ever wonder why the miso made from store-bought miso paste isn’t as good as the miso you’re served in Japanese restaurants? Not long ago, I asked the man behind the counter of our local sushi carryout about this, and he said, “Well, some restaurants use seasoning salt.” I studied the bottle and passed it back…

What a great way to quietly inculcate in a growing girl the idea that she too may one day nurse her own baby. And you shouldn’t have to seek privacy by throwing an old nursing blanket over it! This doll is ready to face her public.

Afer I write a blog item these days, I try to locate a free photograph on the web to accompany whatever I’ve written. So just now, when I went on the prowl for a Richard Gere photo, I decided to turn to his own Gere Foundation, which coordinates funds and grants to foster AIDS research…

In the January/February issue of The Atlantic Monthly, writer Caitlin Flanagan says–after lengthy analysis–that some young girls may be performing a brand of highly impersonal oral sex on boys as a last-ditch effort to appropriately postpone deeper experiences (like intercourse or arousal). And she casts a stern eye on our sexually distorted culture. She writes:…

Over the years, as I’ve watched Richard Gere talk about his love for Tibetan Buddhism, I have struggled to get past my snobby skepticism that a handsome actor once married to a gorgeous supermodel could tell me anything about reality. Of course, disguised within that oh-I-can’t-take-Gere-seriously stance is another lurking belief that because he’s so…

If you are fatigued by those “Seven Days to Better Abs” articles (too often advanced by women’s magazines with chocolate cake photos on their covers), this month’s Vegetarian Times features an article by Shelley Levitt that will assist you in finding a fitness regimen that will satisfy your spiritual longings and bring your body closer…

It’s hard not to be endeared to the U.S. ski team’s bad boy Bode Miller. The free-thinking athlete–thought to be a candidate for several gold medals–was homeschooled by hippie parents who allowed him time to ponder the meaning of existence alone in the wintry New Hampshire woods. Miller’s coaches believe in him, but sometimes get…
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