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Every Friday I point you towards some recommended reading around the blogosphere: 1. Even though I haven’t seen half of these movies, I tend to think that – as usual – Roger Ebert is right about who got robbed in this year’s Oscar season. (As I die-hard fan of Hoop Dreams, I can’t believe they  Read more »

At a moment when the popularity of the British TV melodrama, “Downton Abbey,” seems to have hit its apex in the United States, I’m hopeful that we Americans can take another cultural cue from the Brits. Last week, a controversial bill calling for teenage girls to be given compulsory lessons in sexual abstinence was pulled  Read more »

Every Wednesday I offer tips for adulthood. I’ve been thinking a lot about middle age of late, and what it is – exactly – that makes us more or less happy as we round this phase of life. It might be that my 46th birthday looms on the horizon next week, which makes me feel  Read more »

Every Friday I point you towards some recommended reading around the blogosphere: 1. Mega-blogger Heather Armstrong – aka Dooce – recently separated from her husband. Here, she talks about it on her blog. Very sad, indeed. 2. Equally moving – but more inspirational – is this documentary on Al Jazeera English about a boy from  Read more »

Every Wednesday I offer tips for adulthood. Well, it’s that time of year again. The New Year rolls around and my inbox/RSS Feed/Facebook page is inundated with the resolutions of friends and strangers far and near: Lose five pounds! Run a marathon! Write that #$%@ novel! I’m a big fan of making resolutions. (As those  Read more »