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Sunday, 9 May 2021

On Productivity

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I'm a long-time fan of The Onion , and some of its articles are special favourites and a never-failing source of amusement to me, genera...
Monday, 2 November 2020

Style Dissected

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The Power of Style ,  by Annette Tapert and Diana Edkins, published in 1994, is a book that I checked out of the Toronto public library syst...
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Wednesday, 6 March 2019

Sometimes David Can't Stop Goliath, and Shouldn't Be Expected To

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Everyone's praising Gayle King for keeping her cool in the face of R. Kelly's abusive lies and rage during her CBS This Morning in...
Tuesday, 30 January 2018

On the Care and Feeding of Single People

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Lately I came across Aimee Lutkin's excellent essays, "When Can I Say I'll Be Alone Forever" and "I Did Everything Y...
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Monday, 7 August 2017

Pinterest & Me: A Dialogue

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Pinterest: Here are 100 new fall outfit ideas for you! Me: They're all photos of long-legged twentysomething models in oversized top...
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Thursday, 27 April 2017

The Cat Who Taught Buddhism

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When I first read the 1931 Newbery winner The Cat Who Went to Heaven , by Elizabeth Coatsworth, I didn't like it at first, nor even kno...
Sunday, 19 February 2017

Joy Unsparked: Some Thoughts on Marie Kondo's Thoughts on Tidying Up

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Marie Kondo's book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: the Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing , has been on my radar for a...
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