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“I think the elaborate, expensive display of an open casket with all the makeup in the slumber room enforces the belief that the person is only asleep, and in my personal opinion would only help to prolong the stage of denial,” wrote Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in “Questions and Answers on Death and Dying.” But Kübler-Ross might…

On a lighter note, Marian Burros, cookbook author and veteran New York Times food writer, has evaluated the allegedly-healthier breakfast cereals found at alternative grocery stores. She discovered that many of these well-intentioned products are actually high in sodium, and manufactured by subsidiaries of mainline corporations like General Foods and Kellogg’s. She also says what…

If I were to write a science-fiction novel set in the year 2100, I would have all the characters look pale and wasted, and I would have their forearms bound up in tattered Ace bandages due to overuse of the computer and rampant Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. On second thought, maybe it would be more gripping…

I was on the subway today just before noon when a woman walked through the sparsely populated car and nervously placed seven white index cards near the seats of seven passengers. Without establishing eye contact, she just placed her cards where people could pick them up or lean forward to read them. The capitalized words…

Although my 91-year-old father came through his throat biopsy with a clean bill of health, a combination of general anesthesia and exhaustion from a conference he had attended the previous week kicked his immune system into disorder. He collapsed at home a week ago, and emergency medics had to break down the back door to…

Oh my, if you don’t own British folk singer Vashti Bunyan’s reissued 1970 album “Just Another Diamond Day,” get ready to be playing it all day every day for several weeks. Bunyan was a beautiful, waif-like hippie who was thought to be the “female Bob Dylan,” or the next Marianne Faithful, by British record producers.…

Here’s a lovely list of books for children on the subject of peace.

The rainbow river is a laughing stream,Down in a valley, by a mountain that is pine-tree tall.The rainbow river has a small boy fishing with a worm,And a jam jar by the waterfall. Don’t make a sound, don’t disturb the ground.The biggest fish you ever saw is around!And the rainbow river gives a rainbow fish,As…

Mr. Chattering and one of our sons once saw a stranger accidentally drop a full paper cup of coffee onto the street. “Oh!” said Mr. Chattering. And our son asked innocently, “Why did you say ‘oh’?” Mr. Chattering answered: “Because, honey, when you see a grown-up drop their coffee it’s sort of like seeing a…

When groping to describe Howard Stern’s innate innocence as a youth, especially when his feelings were hurt by his father, I said yesterday that within that period of suffering, you could see Stern’s “inner Buddha.” And last night, a reader wrote: “What’s an Inner Buddha? I think she’s seriously making up terms here.” True, I…
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