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Favorite Moment of the Day 13 Sep 2009 | 04:06 am
Sometimes I go to sleep thinking of the next morning’s hot coffee in my customary white paper cup. The anticipation makes the sheets seem softer. In my life, I am between landmarks: after ...
From Britain, Food for Thought 5 Sep 2009 | 03:45 am
Published in The L.A. Times, OpEd, September 15, 2005 “IT CONTAINED more lumps, hairs and unexplained black things than one would have thought possible,” wrote George Orwell half a century...
Driving Jane 5 Sep 2009 | 03:42 am
Published in The Harvard Advocate, Spring 1999 We drove. I sat on my mother’s lap in the driver’s seat and steered while she did the pedals, keeping us at 15 mph. She held her hands an inch away from...
I Can't Believe She Did That! 5 Sep 2009 | 03:40 am
Published in O, The Oprah Magazine, August 2006 That summer I felt beautiful in motion, but Camille was just beautiful, without exceptions, even leaning over a Petri dish in goggles, fiddling with a ...
Waterloo 5 Sep 2009 | 03:38 am
Published in The Massachusetts Review, Spring 2006 A woman – I’d never seen her before – stepped into the lift with us. Her hair was dark, pixie cut around a pretty face with a delicate, freckled nos...
Confessions of a Lapsed Vegetarian 5 Sep 2009 | 03:36 am
Published in The Southwest Review, 2008 “Now that men are saturated and penetrated, as it were, with love of pleasure, it is not an easy task to attempt to pluck out from their bodies the flesh-baite...
Tuscan Holiday 5 Sep 2009 | 03:32 am
Published in Vogue, February 2008 We met on the wide sidewalk of the Via Cavour where it intersects the Piazza del Duomo. Marco was a friend of a friend. I’d just arrived in Florence. As I reached ou...
