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"PERSONHOOD AND DIGNITY" 26 Jun 2013 | 07:46 pm
Two great moments for America. The striking down by the Supreme Court of the discriminatory U. S. Marriage Act. Congratulations to all who worked so hard to end legal coverage of this prejudice. And ...
Thank you to Mark Bittman 12 Jun 2013 | 08:02 pm
Thrilled to tell you all that the esteemed Mark Bittman has written about our campaign to get mercury out of our food! Please sign our campaign against the utilities suing for the right to pollute!
ON THE OCCASION OF BYRON'S EIGHTY-SIXTH BIRTHDAY: GETTING OUR TOES DONE 3 Jun 2013 | 11:10 pm
"So what color are you going to choose?" "I don't do polish, you know that Byron. Well how could you, actually? When would you ever see my toes?" "Remember when I came to see Alex the first time, he w...
AND NOW, TO ESCAPE THE BLISTERING WEATHER, READ ABOUT GARDENING 1 Jun 2013 | 04:06 pm
My semi-annual review of the season's crop of gardening books is in this Sunday's New York Times. I will cherish one book for decades, I'm sure: Eudora Welty's "garden" letters. Also of note: Piet Ou...
UTILITIES FIGHTING TO PROTECT THEIR RIGHT TO POLLUTE OUR AIR WITH MERCURY! 31 May 2013 | 07:14 pm
This is one of the most important petitions we have sent out from Moms Clean Air Force; if you are so inclined, please do sign and pass along. Longtime readers of Slow Love Life know that "Moms" start...
WALKING IN WALES! 26 May 2013 | 01:52 am
To my Slow Love Life friends: my piece last fall's walk of a lifetime--along the rainblown windswept south coast of Wales--is in the New York Times Travel Section on Sunday (and up online now). I have...
LOST IN THE SPRING DUNES 18 May 2013 | 03:50 am
A couple of generous friends introduced me to one of their favorite secret walks in the sand dunes on the coast of Massachusetts. I had never seen anything like these sandy hills full of scrub oak and...
MOTHER'S DAY MUSINGS: ACTING WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF CIRCUMSTANCE 10 May 2013 | 02:00 am
Often I will see something that strikes me, but I am in a hurry and rush past. Then I cannot stop thinking about what I have just seen, so I return. Even if I have only my cell phone, I snap some pict...
AND THEN THERE'S THE POWER OF NO COLOR AT ALL, AT THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM 6 May 2013 | 01:48 am
Children are magnets and so I am pulled more often to Brooklyn, where my older son lives. I like to meet him at the Brooklyn Museum, because there is so much to look at--lots of Rodins, for starters--...
CROCHETED COLOR IN MADISON SQUARE PARK 6 May 2013 | 01:13 am
The piece is kind of funny, once you get over feeling startled at such an intrusion on the plantings of Madison Square Park. There are times when I wonder why a garden can't simply be...just a garden....
