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Dec.28.2009
From significant advances in the field of personalized medicine–– which uses information regarding an individual’s specific genetic make-up and environment to diagnose and treat diseases–– to the awarding of the Nobel Prize to five brilliant women and the “miracle on the Hudson,” the year 2009 is...
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Dec.28.2009
Now that Christmas is a memory and a new year is sneaking in, I wanted to say hello to my favorite internet friends and wish you only the best for 2010. Dream big and don’t let the world snatch them. Like snowflakes in south Texas, your dreams and wishes are rare and beautiful,...
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Dec.24.2009
We're in the thick of it now, the days that, a year ago, were the final days we had together in Madagascar: Hard days. Loving days. Memorable and painful days.
We're doing Christmas as close to the way we used to as we can, Annie and I, missing the most important element of all, the one person who...
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Apr.14.2009
Vishu
She bends over daffodils, clippers glinting in moonlight.
Bells harvested, she blots dew in a wad of nightgown, slides back into the house like a thief.
Her ponytail pantomimes a question,but she already knows the answer—the whole year’s luck depends on her.
She arranges silver rupees, an...
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Jan.24.2009
TET IS ALSO A TIME FOR REFLECTION
There is something about the Lunar New Year celebration in Vietnam (Tet) which inspires the urge to reflect on the past year, your life in general and what you hope for in the coming year. With the exception of the Western New Year, I suspect most cultural /...
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Jan.13.2009
Well, what will be different in O9? Everything I suspect, the way I view the world,the changes that have occurred in this country and how they affect me. Am I angry about O8, absolutely not, I believe in God as well as Karma for those who don't. I thought that I knew a little bit but now that I...
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Jan.08.2009
I didn't really make any New Year resolutions. I didn't set any goals.
Because I tend to just live each day as it happens. And sometimes I wake up and just want to write, or play with the grandkids, or go hiking, or clean the garage.
I used to be a neat freak. I used to keep "to do lists...
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Jan.07.2009
It's 2009 and for a lousy year, 2008 certainly flew by in a hurry. Frankly, I'm glad it's gone. I begin a new year with the hope of every new year -- that it will be somehow better.
How would I make it better? Oh, in so many ways. I don't make resolutions but I tend to contemplate. I like to think...
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Jan.06.2009
My year begins with optimism for change for the better, and worry because the economy is deteriorating. Since retiring I've been a full time artist and writer, living on savings and investments, and like most of my friends, taken a finanical hit this last year. I've lived through quite a few...
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Jan.02.2009
The first day of the new year and one of my first acts was to lurch and wham my head on a towel rack and open a gash on the crown that you could park a Buick in. About an inch and a half long, a groove just above my hairline (thank God it's not visible, genetics have done enough damage to my...
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