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An Autobiography in Cookbooks: The Culinary Arts Institute Encyclopedic Cookbook © 1948 [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
My mother received this cookbook as a wedding gift and passed it on to me many years ago. It remains one of my favorites, not because of the recipes though there are some good…
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Quantum Entanglement Revealed! Jeanne Alechinsky’s “Ghosts” is on to something [By Tracy Danison]
“Ghosts” cast: Jeanne Alechinsky, background, with musician collaborators Jacques Salamaka and Julie Appéré. Photo © Isabelle Chemin, Paramour Compagnie, 2025 My next-to-eldest brother, Joe, now deceased, said of our childhood house that a body…
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The Last Shall Be First [by David Lehman]
Next Line, Please By David Lehman | November 25, 2014 We love last lines. The endings of favorite novels enter the mind and lodge there. Scott Fitzgerald’s majestic conclusion of The Great Gatsby is a favorite: “So we…
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Perfection Wasted [by John Updike]
And another regrettable thing about deathis the ceasing of your own brand of magic,which took a whole life to develop and market —the quips, the witticisms, the slantadjusted to a few, those loved…
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“Theoretical Positivity” [by Loren Goodman]
Theoretical Positivity “Always be positive,” said the neutron“But I’m not feeling well” said the electronWith a tear in the eye of its unsmiling little face“The key is to always be positive“Rejoined the neutron impassively,…
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It Even Has an Image File, I Am a Real Blogger [by Lindsay Daigle]
I am not a blogger, I am a poet. This week though, I was both. And it was thrilling—scary and vulnerable, fun and really pleasing. In determining the direction this fifth and final blog…
