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Get Wise

When one is in danger of complacency or inertia, the examples of others can often serve as a zesty tonic.  To wit: these three extraordinary women I met this week.
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C’mon, fess up: you never really read Ethan Frome or Jude the Obscure or even the full text of Romeo and Juliet back in high school.  Or perhaps you did:  the braces made you an indoor kid — I’m speaking from experience here — and you’ve since forgotten everything.

I know a number of people who deem fiction irrelevant, but I hold most fervent the notion that literature can sometimes teach us, or remind us, about how to live. Case in point: E.M. Forster, the 19th-and-20th century British chronicler who wrote some of the most utterly elegant, beautiful prose in the English language.  His works, some of which were lovingly adapted to the screen by Merchant Ivory, include Where Angels Fear to Tread, A Room With a View and Maurice.

Even if you never again return to his books, books that were foisted on us well before we were truly ready to digest their wonders, know that Forster wrote two words that, when we remember them, can instantly enrich our relationships.
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Chewing the Right Thing: Where the Health to Eat this Week

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Phew!  The SPRING 2010 Edition of Healthy Eats Here! is done.  Stick a fork in it, baby.   I’ve added dozens more restaurants, focusing most keenly on areas such as Oregon, New Jersey, Vegas and others.  Hooray! To celebrate, I’m posting an interview with one of my newest chef crushes: she helms my new favorite [...]

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What Would Jefferson Eat? — Part Two of Declaring Our Independence from Poor Habits

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Happy 267th Birthday, Thomas Jefferson!  You’re looking so…liberated.  Sorry about going so picture-crazy at your house the other day.  And for clutchin’ on your columns. Alright.  Time for Part Two on How Jefferson Kept his Mojo:  Jefferson was 6’2″ and, as at least one Monticello tour guide describes him, “straight as a gun barrel.”  He [...]

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WWJD? The 12-Step Program to Staying Fit and Slender the Thomas Jefferson Way

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Warning:  I’ve long been a Colonial history buff, and an especially ardent Jeffersonophile.  Now that I live in a region that affords gloriously unfettered access to such felicities as Monticello, you’ll be seeing similar posts to this one with increasing frequency.  Hooray! It’s Thomas Jefferson’s birthday tomorrow, and to celebrate, we’re going to Monticello! Actually, [...]

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Get Wise: Celebrating Yourself

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‘Fess up.  You’ve done it, too: made your Oscar acceptance speech into the shampoo bottle. It’s OK.  We all want to be lauded, feted, celebrated.  (No wonder the word celebrity shares the same Latin root, celebratus.)  The honoring and lauding of each other is one of the reasons we get into relationships: we shine the [...]

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