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I will always refer to Ross Matthews as Ross the Intern.  That was his title when he was introduced to me on The Tonight Show and that will forever be his title in my eyes.  That’s because even though he’s grown up to have a talk show of his very own, he still approaches life…

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…

We’ve seen tons of chef memoirs recently – even I’ve gotten sick of them.  But it’s hard not to be intrigued by Marcus Samuelsson’s story.  Samuelsson was not even three years old when his mother walked him and his sister to the nearest town in Ethiopia in search of care for their tuberculosis affliction.  His mother…

I love memoirs of crazy childhoods.  Perhaps it’s because I know I’m safe from all that dysfunction and strife thanks to my loving parents and idyllic upbringing.  When the back of Mary Karr’s memoir, The Liar’s Club, described it as an “account of an apocalyptic childhood,” I thought I was in for some serious loony toons.…