Category Archives: The Facts of Life

A intense dialogue overheard on the Upper West Side

Outside a local elementary school, a very tall father and a very little boy, maybe four years old, were engaged in an exchange. The little boy was objecting passionately to moving onward because someone or something which he expected to … Continue reading

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What’s a more extreme term than schadenfreude?

From Harper’s Weekly Review: Thousands of anti-abortion protesters who attended the National March for Life rally and concert this January may have been exposed to measles.

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So what are “ancient grains”?

Don’t know if you were as puzzled as I was when I noticed a loaf of bread I’d unwittingly paid too much money for contained “ancient grains.” Yesterday, when I had a lovely BLT at the Green Kitchen (est’d 1931) … Continue reading

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