Tag: family
member name: Diane Danielson
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March 30, 2007 09:15 PM EDT --
Recently my son and I watched Miracle, the Disney movie about the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team’s victory over the Russians. That game was a defining moment of my youth: the ultimate David and Goliath . . .
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May 04, 2007 10:50 PM EDT --
“I’m turning 40 this year,” I say out loud to my reflection in the bathroom mirror. Fortunately, the woman in the mirror shrugs her shoulders and laughs because for some reason . . .
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March 18, 2007 12:06 AM EDT --
I don’t trust people who don’t drink coffee for four reasons: (1) They obviously have some sort of natural edge over me; (2) they hail from that mythical land of nod where they regularly get . . .
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April 14, 2007 05:45 PM EDT --
Last week marked my son’s and my annual pilgrimage to the Big Apple Circus. Now, I’m really not sure why he needs to see the real thing when everyday at home he’s got ringside seats . . .
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March 02, 2007 09:54 AM EST --
It’s awards season. Which means in addition to ogling George Clooney in a tux, we face that same old question, “Exactly what is it that makes for greatness when it comes to acting?” Is . . .
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January 27, 2007 12:41 PM EST --
One of the rules of blogging is "don't say it if you wouldn't want to read it in a Letter to the Editor." Well, here's my Letter to the Editor of the Boston Globe (published . . .
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October 31, 2006 10:54 PM EST --
(with apologies to the great poet John Keats)
THOU still unfulfilled space of emptiness
Thou foster-child of Suburbia and slow Time,
Urban historian, who canst thus express,
A parking . . .
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January 18, 2007 08:23 PM EST --
Previously, if you asked me about the greatest innovation in thumbs, I would have given the textbook answer: “opposable thumbs allow us to grasp tools.” Or, I might have thought . . .
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October 31, 2006 10:43 PM EST --
Perfection is for people with plenty of free time and personal assistants. At least that's what I tell myself these days. You see, a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I used to be one . . .
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