The boring lives of suburban wives

September 9, 2026
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If there were a category for "most boring reality show, The Double Lives of Suburban Wives would win, hands down. I don't watch ALL reality programming featuring women. But I have been a fan of the various Bravo "housewives" franchises, which enticed me to watch a few episodes of this show (on...
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8 Comments · Opinion

What our old(er) dogs can teach us

October 1, 2013
Our sweet and loving Little He is now more than 15 years old. That's early 80s in human years, and he's beginning to show it. Lateral movement is nearly impossible...
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7 Comments · Dogs

The last taboo

September 30, 2013
What's our last taboo? It's obviously not oral sex, that's for sure.(Thank you, Michael Douglas.)  Or incest. (Thank you, The Borgias.) It's money. Money's our last...
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12 Comments · Blog

Breathless new documentary on JD Salinger fails to call a s...

September 29, 2013
A new documentary on author JD Salinger is out.  Shane Salerno worked on it for an entire decade and finally, it aired at the Telluride Film Festival not too long ago...
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38 Comments · Blog

Julia Child is one smart cookie

September 28, 2013
Postwar Paris wasn't all crepes suzettes and ladies swanning around in nip-waisted dresses. You've got to love a chapter that opens like this.  It's from Karen Karbo's...
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18 Comments · Blog

Nutritious, delicious eggplant pasta: a Sicilian staple

September 27, 2013
Eggplant parmesan or any dish including eggplant was one of the most eagerly anticipated meals in our old-school Sicilian household. The preparation of the eggplant...
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A visit to beautiful Lake Tahoe

September 26, 2013
Summer's tail end is worth celebrating, so M and I decided to do a quick jaunt to Lake Tahoe. He'd never been, and I hadn't visited for decades. It's not like we're...
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2 Comments · Travel

Wallow in the joy of being alone

September 25, 2013
Not everyone understand the joys of solitude, either for themselves or others. Years ago I had a friend who would get hugely pissed off when I'd withdraw and...
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5 Comments · Blog

Hot toddy cure for what ails us

September 24, 2013
We're fighting bad and slowly progressing head colds with what's right now a dry cough and body aches. Not to mention that sinus headache that makes us miserable. Did...
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16 Comments · Recipes

Beginning is always hardest

September 23, 2013
Why is it that the first step is always the highest, the hardest and the one we like to avoid taking? You know what I mean. That is, if, like me, you are a...
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The ghosts of Greenwich Village still walk its rainy street

September 22, 2013
Come along with me on a trip back in time to a neighborhood that vibrated with creativity of all kinds: Greenwich Village. On a rainy spring day a group of girlfriends...
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2 Comments · Travel

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