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Will Write for Cheese

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Culture magazine is the cheese-lover's go-to guide for all things enzymatic. It's also a totally entertaining mag and website, with a great social presence and tons of engaging content. Their homepage, for instance, features a sheep poking his head around the left sidebar. Culture also held a contest last month in honor of Valentine's Day, … Continue reading Will Write for Cheese

The Quirky Girl Round-up

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The Q-word is everywhere lately, popularized by the It-girls who champion its meaning. Zooey Deschanel. Leslie Feist. Beth Ditto. I've always identified with quirky, although its current status as the coolest thing to be makes me resent that fact. Which is, in essence, quite quirky. Boiled down to bare bones, 'quirky' seems to refer these … Continue reading The Quirky Girl Round-up

Bummed-out Kitty Blues

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Last week, my cat Charley was sullen and unfrisky. He was eating, drinking, and pooping, but there's no question he wasn't his quirky self. He was pissed. At me. This is what I wrote at the time, and saved in draft form until Charley and I made a trip to the vet: ___________________________________________________ I think … Continue reading Bummed-out Kitty Blues

“And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street.”

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This is my response to Michael Winerip's article Mulberry Street May Fade, but 'Mulberry Street' Lives On, which appeared in the New York Times on Jan. 29, 2012, on the 75th anniversary of the Dr. Seuss classic And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. I was alone in a city I still … Continue reading “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street.”

Year in Review: 2011

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1. What did you do in 2011 that you’d never done before? I went on a little holiday adventure instead of spending Christmas on Cape Cod as I always have before. I saw more Christmas lights than in the previous 34 years in the span of a few hours on Long Island, and ate three … Continue reading Year in Review: 2011