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I forced myself to watch (for you) the online trailer to the upcoming film about United’s Flight 93, the flight where passengers bravely disrupted the hijacker’s 9/11 plot to destroy the White House. It’s being billed as an “unflinching drama” made by “acclaimed filmmaker” Paul Greengrass (who directed “Bloody Sunday,” and “The Bourne Supremacy”), but…

Have you noticed the songs of the birds returning to your neighborhood? I’m always amazed at how they spring into song the moment the weather warms. Our parakeet, who recently died, was a marathon warbler. Three years ago, we bred him with a cute female by giving the smitten pair a bigger cage and wood…

Those of you reading this blog Tuesday evening will appreciate that tomorrow, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 a.m., the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06 That won’t ever happen again. Thanks so much to Rev. Vic Fuhrman, interfaith minister, wedding officiant, and Reiki master for notifying me!

My fourth-grade son is required to write a 600-word biography of the Portuguese navigator Esteban Gomez, a man known for establishing that there was no easy trade route to China through the New World, around 1524. Because the young Chattering can’t type and because I’m a little irritated with his school for not teaching him,…

Did you catch actor Hal Holbrook (in the guise of a hospital patient) tell Tony Soprano last night that “We are all connected. We are all one”? Later in the program, the nation’s favorite gangster confesses that he’s thinking we are all part of “something bigger.” Finally, at episode’s close, Tony stares up into the…

I’ve seen a realm I knew existed but hadn’t visited before. It’s a world in which you say to a Delta ticket agent: “My 91-year-old father is terribly ill, and I can’t spontaneously pay $1,200 for every plane ticket.” It’s a world in which pastors, hospital social workers, well-appointed ladies granting tours to managed care…

It was great to see Mr. Chattering and the kids again. But while I was gone my children acquired new friends–thriving head lice. Apparently, our school has become infested. Two hours into my homecoming, I was combing Pantene cream rinse through each tangled, fine-haired Chattering head. With the younger, I tried to make the hunt…

Stepping in for Amy Cunningham this week is the amazing Marisa Lowenstein, an NYC-based writer whose work has appeared in Natural Health, Travel + Leisure Family and Lime.com.

Mercury is always in retrograde. It’s probably retrograding right now. At least it seems that way. While the fickle nature of the gray planet is an excellent justification for a bad hair day or a bad day at the office or simply a bad attitude, the whole astrology thing is getting tired. Or maybe it’s…

My moments of gratitude may come just before sleep, but for others gratitude often finds a different time to take over. Take CM reader Daria, who sinks into thankfulness while swimming her morning laps. The physical act of pushing through water motivates her not only to appreciate her arms, legs, and lungs, but also the…
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