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I was feeling a little homesick so recently I opened up my copy of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. I’m not sure if it cured my homesickness or just made me yearn for my beautiful and unique hometown more than ever. Either way, it’s a great read. John Berendt’s work of non-fiction…
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The Divergent series has taken the world by storm. Well, it has taken the teen world by storm. Once again, I gave in and read a Young Adult novel series. I’m still proud that I resisted Twilight, but I can’t make fun because I loved the Hunger Games. Veronica Roth’s series was the latest sensation…
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From temperature to sleep, see this infographic to understand what contributes to your happiness. Esquire used a focus group of 1,000 to determine what makes men normal. How do you stack up? Former mayor Michael Bloomberg is donating $53 million to restock the fish populations in Brazil, Chile, and the Philippines. An effort like this…
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A new system in development will change the way we get onto the subway. Bye bye metrocards! Coming of Age Day is a mass Japanese bar mitzvah of sorts. Sometimes I’m tempted to get out of my more traditional career path and become a personal assistant. I’ve always proudly used the Oxford comma. My fellow…
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This inspirational Duracell ad shines a spotlight on Derrick Coleman and the obstacles he has had to overcome as a deaf running back for the Seattle Seahawks. This guy could be playing in the Super Bowl – watch out. 2014 brings a major change to the Boy Scouts who will begin allowing openly gay children…
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When my Mom told me she was going to hear a Holocaust survivor speak a couple weeks ago, I asked if she wouldn’t mind picking up a copy of the book he was discussing (she did – and it was signed!) because the subject matter was slightly different from anything I had read. There are…
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Though David Sedaris touches on his childhood in this collection of essays, those anecdotes don’t become the focus of this book as they did in the last collection of his I read, “Me Talk Pretty One Day”. This time, he pulls from his early adulthood and – my favorite – sprinkles in some rants spoken…
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Where my girls at?! Flavorwire looks at 20 women who shaped our culture in 2013. A solar charger may seem like one of those things no one really needs, but after being stranded with no power for six days during Hurricane Sandy, something like this is starting to look pretty good. What would the New…
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There are plenty of women willing to be a surrogate. Here’s why. I hurt just thinking about female circumcision. Binge watching TV has become standard. Since success of a show is often based on live ratings, I’m worried this is why so many of my favorite shows get cancelled. I still miss Happy Endings. Apparently…
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The mafia is a rarely discussed piece of Jewish history, one that is overshadowed by major events like the Holocaust or minor events like “my son, the doc-tah”. When most people think of Jews, they think of the stereotypes. The smartypants. The weaklings. But guess what: in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, it was a…
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