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Bruce
About an hour before every concert, Bruce Springsteen draws up a set list of 31 songs, written in big, scrawly letters in marker ink and soon thereafter distributed to his musicians and crew in...
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To the First Lady, With Love
Set your politics aside. This was a stunningly beautiful tribute to Michelle Obama by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the author of the novel Americanah, who writes a “Thank-you Note” To the First Lady,...
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Saturday Morning
Fragile as ash a memory stirs and the past comes back. […] a single breath can make it crackle and burn. ~ Gary Catalano, “Breath,” Slow Tennis: Poems 1980-83 Notes: Poem – Memory’s Landscape....
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Morning Call
Today, if you’re confronting an issue for the ten thousandth time, or feeling that your life is going nowhere, or panicking over how little you’ve achieved, stop and breathe. You’re not falling behind...
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Uma
Uma Thurman knows that there are no retakes in theater, no postproduction fixes, no chances to dub in a line. When she strides onstage for “The Parisian Woman,” a play by Beau Willimon, the “House of...
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Happy Birthday Holly!
Happy 60th Birthday Holly Hunter! (Born, March 20, 1958) “I don’t want anyone to ever wonder who I am,” she says. “I’m not interested in fooling people.” “Acting is a tremendously insecurity-making...
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Tuesday Morning Wake-Up Call
“People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you never see the headlines say, ‘Six billion people got along rather well today.’ You’ll have the headline about the 30 people who shot...
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Smell the earth
Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape;you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing. ~ Iris Murdoch, from her debut novel: Under the NetNotes:...
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I wonder how on earth we keep track of any of it
Bristling as well as warm breezes circulate among those people, and one may find oneself in a crosswind without knowing why. It must be connected to the density of memories in the room. Each person...
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Monday Morning Wake-Up Call
Here are some key attributes of the voice in my head. I suspect they will sound familiar. It’s often fixated on the past and future, at the expense of whatever is happening right now. The voice loves...
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