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  • words+breath=change – Lisa Vihos

    June 24, 2011

                             …the answer my friend, is blowin’ in the wind, the answer is blowin' in the wind. – B. Dylan   I don’t know about you, but I…

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  • Memory+Play=Poetry – Lisa Vihos

    June 23, 2011

    Today’s post is for my niece, Ella, who turned seven yesterday, and her mother and father who made her. All photos are courtesy of Stephan Mazurek. Dear Ella, You are a girl of immense…

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  • Mazel Tov Doug and Frank!

    June 22, 2011

    Married!  More pictures here.  NYT announcement here. ( Ed. note: Doug wrote to me about Stacie Turner's photographs:  "I like her subject line. In fact, the minister said something more thrilling even than that. "Let…

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  • “A ship is a piece of floating space” –Sally Ashton

    June 22, 2011

    So said Michel Foucault in Different Spaces. I arrived in Lisbon Saturday by airship—the jet—a kind of airborne floating space, “a non-place going places,” a placeless place that is at once threshold and destination,…

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  • Menopause: The New Puberty – Lisa Vihos

    June 22, 2011

    I’m serious. I have not felt so loopy since I was thirteen and the hormones were raging. I remember Motor City summer nights standing out in front of the Dairy Deluxe with my girlfriends…

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  • Let Summer Begin (Please) – Lisa Vihos

    June 21, 2011

    This post is dedicated to my mom, Rosanne, who is celebrating her 74th birthday today. Her kindness is so immense, she had to be born on the longest day of the year to contain…

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