My niece Amy was always the quiet one at the table. Through years of rude, noisy family dinners, she listened more than she talked.
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2/7/13
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The further I get from home, sailing along the New Zealand coast, the smaller the issues seem that once fixed my attention on the news.
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1/31/13
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So, I have a slight Indiana Jones compulsion. I first heard about “stingers” two weeks ago, when we cruised the Torres Straits, off Australia.
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1/24/13
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I think of you as fellow travelers. We are, after all, living our lives in sync, reading the same news, reacting to the same events.
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1/17/13
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Once again, the Herald has sent me, its one and only foreign correspondent, on a journey far and wide and Down Under, to see the world and report back to my readers.
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1/10/13
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Recently I sent a very dear friend a Kindle copy of Louise Erdrich’s most recent novel, “The Round House.”
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1/3/13
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I have, over the years, written about tragedies that have touched our lives.
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12/20/12
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Consider the Yiddish word latke. It is what it sounds like, an onomatopoeic name for a flat, fried potato pancake consumed by Jewish people during Hanukkah.
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12/13/12
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We have a choice. We are here, in the brief, wild weeks after Thanksgiving and before Hanukkah and Christmas, and we get to decide how to survive this interlude.
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12/6/12
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I jumped on eBay to bid on one of the last packs of Twinkies and found that the price is already up to $200,000.
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11/29/12
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