Tag: women
group name: pastafarians
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January 23, 2008 09:51 PM EST --
If there was one thing that the three Democratic candidates agreed on in their recent South Carolina debate it was poverty. And like the pastor's position on sin, they were all "agin it." . . .
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December 13, 2007 06:34 AM EST --
The green glass ball was the size of a very large grapefruit. It was an odd, sort of warm shade of green with hints of gold and surprisingly heavy, which implies a certain robust quality that may help . . .
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February 28, 2008 12:57 AM EST --
President Bush wound up his six-day trip across sub-Saharan Africa last week, doing his best to highlight the successes that have been accomplished on the continent. When asked about establishing . . .
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February 28, 2007 10:53 PM EST --
In the 1950's women didn't have muscles, unless they lived and worked on a farm. Of course everyone has to have muscles or they couldn't stand up, what I mean is they weren't supposed to . . .
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June 03, 2007 11:03 AM EDT --
Somehow it seemed perfect. Immodest, RG used that word to describe me last night. It fit like a glove.
We had dinner at Rise's. RG calculated that about 26 people had been invited, casually, granted . . .
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October 20, 2007 02:26 PM EDT --
The large pink envelope arrived in today's mail. I knew it was a birthday card from my mother. It is part of the ritual, these small gestures that she has always done, her way of showing affection. . . .
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March 18, 2007 01:52 PM EDT --
Today's cover story in the New York Times magazine on the women soldiers who have served in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq shocked me. First it was the statistics. More than 160,000 women have been . . .
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January 27, 2008 11:18 AM EST --
It's not like I've sailed through life being untouched by death. My husband died at the relatively youthful age of 52. I was 10 years younger and had left him years earlier. He was also the father . . .
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March 02, 2008 01:02 PM EST --
They came in a plain, small, cardboard box. RG was home when the doorbell rang. The postman handed over the parcel and had him sign for it. Then he called me at the office to tell me it had arrived. I'd . . .
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September 03, 2007 12:50 PM EDT --
This Labor Day weekend found me surrounded by my loving, funny, adorable granddaughters in my daughter's house in Montreal. It is where my heart pulls me whenever there is enough time in my busy work . . .
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April 12, 2007 08:36 AM EDT --
I have never listened to Don Imus's radio program "Imus in the Morning", but over the weekend as I spent time in 4 airports, I got more than my share of two "news" stories that . . .
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July 12, 2008 11:39 AM EDT --
I just spoke to my my friend, Lois Tarlow. Boston Globe art critic, Robert Taylor, wrote an excellent review of her retrospective at the Brockton Museum and I called to congratulate her. We had a long . . .
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April 29, 2007 09:52 AM EDT --
Saturday's party at Barbara and Carol's was great! House all decorated for Halloween, in the extreme, good food, interesting costumes, wide range of ages. Not an intellectual, Cambridge type, touchy-feely . . .
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April 01, 2007 12:49 PM EDT --
Some women are born liberated. I am one of them. While I acknowledge that the world is full of repressed and victimized people and that women have struggled and continue to struggle against inequities . . .
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March 30, 2008 12:27 PM EDT --
Today Ron, newly married Ron, stopped by to visit me at the office and suggested we get together next week when his wife Pamela is out of town. I had to laugh. It was fine when we would go out occasionally . . .
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July 27, 2008 12:18 PM EDT --
Many recent days were enshrouded by cold damp fog. Today, in spite of the fact that it was early May, dawned, bright, sunny, but still very cold. A nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union over the weekend . . .
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October 19, 2007 08:54 AM EDT --
On my first trip to Vienna and Friedrichshof it had been a lot easier to call attention to myself. All the contacts I had been given in the art world and at the Blue Danube Radio had panned out. I had . . .
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October 24, 2007 08:14 AM EDT --
I'm sitting at the small, round, wooden table in the guest breakfast room where RG and I used to eat and talk. I'm writing as I wait for lunch at noon. My daughter comes in to sit with me. Her . . .
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October 31, 2007 07:44 AM EDT --
After lunch I go down to the guest room to write. My daughter comes too. We are only there a few minutes when the restorer from Vienna (he's actually German but speaks perfect English with an Austrian . . .
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July 15, 2008 07:33 AM EDT --
While waiting in the posh lobby of the office building at 99 Bedford Street in downtown Boston to be called in for my first round job interview with the head hunters for the Brockton Museum Directorship, . . .
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