Scheduling Conflicts

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August 29, 2009

Scheduling Conflicts

I have a problem: I’m supposed to start my tour for Hardball on September 22, but that’s also the season premiere for NCIS.  I confess that I’m a fan.  Some […]

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August 24, 2009

Slow Reading

There’s a beautiful, thought-provoking commentary on reading in the August 23 NY Times, a tribute to the late Richard Poirier, whose work I confess I didn’t know–but am now eager […]

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August 18, 2009

In the Unlikely Event

Of one’s own death, what happens to all your emails, websites, blogs, bank accounts and bills with online only access?  Searching for another topic, I came on a nifty article […]

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August 16, 2009

FYI

The New York Times Magazine has an essay of mine this morning  in the “Lives” section.  It’s about my husband’s and my experience with the French health system, with a […]

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August 14, 2009

Barack, Gates, and America’s Most Segregated City

A reporter asked me recently how I feel, as a Jew, when I tour in Germany. I said I feel like a ghost–in every major city there’s a Jewish museum […]

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August 7, 2009

Book v Kindle

My cousin Barb, in Ukraine with the Peace Corps, took a Kindle with her, and a mighty fine idea that was, too: remote from any English-language bookstores or libraries, she […]

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August 3, 2009

Urban Life

Strangers to Chicago, and even us hard-bitten natives, are wary of muggers in the parks and after dark.  I recently learned that all last winter, as my dog and I […]

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