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Rush Hour by Sarah Chu
Thanks, J, for forwarding along this piece by our mutual friend Sarah, only a year away from finishing the interminable training that is the path towards physicianhood. She wrote it for a creative nonfiction class that she took at Penn. Excellent stuff.
Rush Hour by Sarah Chu
It was past five, and the platform was crowded with [...]
That Baseball Romance
So I wasn’t there at the game. And tickets to Stephen Strasburg’s major league debut as a phenom pitcher would have been nearly impossible to get. But still. You have to feel good for the Washington Nationals, and this Washington Post writer gets the magic just right. I love that–at its best, baseball as a [...]
Ending Words from Cosmodemonic
Reading through Michael Chabon’s Manhood for Amateurs–a series of nonfiction pieces exploring themes of ‘the pleasures and regrets of a husband, father and son.’ Particularly good closure from the short piece ‘Cosmodemonic.’
We are accustomed to repeating the cliche, and to believing, that “our most precious resource is our children.” But we have plenty [...]
Romance of the Window Seat
I should have submitted one of my photos en route from the recent trip from Boston to Vegas or one leg of my Southeast Asia trip from Malaysia to Cambodia? I don’t know if I can get over the crampedness of the window seat, but this almost makes you want to.
March 28, 2010
Personal Journeys–NY [...]
Springing the Kids from School
An appropriate piece of writing for this coming week (finally spring break!), despite the cool rainy weather predicted for this weekend. Sometimes, you absolutely do need to Spring from School. Heading to Vegas for the week with S. (see, I put it out there, you. Not buried in the more innocuous Heading [...]
Tina Fey Is Wise
Here are some good ones from a recent Esquire magazine (yeah, I’m still reading that– how do you pass up a $5 magazine subscription?? You just can’t, people..)
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My four-year-old daughter has a pretend hair-and-nail salon, and I was doing her hair and makeup. I said, “Hello ma’am. What’s your name? And [...]
Sometimes, the Sentence Really Says It
Lucky to be at the beginning of a February break week, that New England school-break tradition that my sister down in Philadelphia always ribs me about. Her own school students soldiering bravely through the winter without a similar vacation week. How in the world do you get to 180 school days??, she insists. [...]
Faith and Stuffed Cabbage
How good to wake up on Saturday to a brisk winter morning–or rather shielded from the reach of it–through the marvels of home insulation and the welcome warming sun coming through the windows. The luxury of being able to start slow– breakfast, percolated coffee and a book.
Finally making my way through the end of [...]
The Words of Men
A good short essay piece from the November Esquire. Why not?
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The Words of Men
What we say matters, and our language has never been better
By Chris Jones
She never loved you anyway.
Giants live there.
It’s the best that you did.
Those are three beautiful sentences I heard this week. They were spoken by strangers to other strangers, but they [...]
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