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Lisa Solod Warren's Blog
June 12, 2009
- Anti-Semitism has been a fact of my life for its entirety, from the first time, at age 5 or 6 I was told I was going to hell because I did not believe in Jesus, to the countless times I was called a “stupid Jew,” a kike, a baby killer, and a host of other names; from the time when, after the tent revivals rolled into town and everyone got “saved” (for the first or fifth time) the saved ...
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May 20, 2009
- Salon..com http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/05/19/kramer_dirt/index.html recently ran an article and an interview with the editor of a new book of essays I am included in, called DIRT: Writers on the Quirks, Habits, and Passions of Keeping House. In the article the writer says that "The most interesting essays in the collection are the ones that show how ...
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April 23, 2009
- Getting men to talk about family in an open and honest manner is a rare and special treat and reading Brothers: 26 Stories of Love and Rivalry is like sitting in a comfortable chair, hidden in a darkened room, listening to guys tell their secrets to each other - when they think we aren’t listening. The book is so chock full of treasure, beauty and truth, that it is almost impossible to know ...
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March 28, 2009
- Having just returned from a lovely week in Paris with my sixteen-year-old daughter I was intrigued to pick up my friend Jamie Cat Callan's new book French Women Don't Sleep Alone and find so much good and spunky wisdom in it. I've traveled to France a dozen times and lived there two years from 2001-2003 and she's nailed the differences between French and American women's approaches to romance ...
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March 18, 2009
- Now that we have officially elected an elitist as president, I can finally come out of the closet. Although close friends and family have known for years that I am an elitist, I guess it is time to announce myself publicly. It seems that people are enjoying casting stones at both the president and others who value education, the arts, and other elitist values -- such as speaking in full ...
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March 3, 2009
- A few days ago, at a huge writers conference in Chicago, I met a charming and articulate man -- dressed in lizard cowboy boots and a very interesting sort of felt cowboy hat -- who happens to be a lobbyist for the arts. He was very excited to have just been a part of the effort to ensure the 50 million dollar funding of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the hope of continued funding ...
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February 9, 2009
- 1. “What are Americans still buying? Big Macs, Campbell’s soup, Hershey’s, chocolate, and Spam – the four food groups of the apocalypse.” From Frank Rich’s Sunday, February 1, New York Times, column entitled “Herbert Hoover Lives” 2. I was driving my sister to a doctor’s appointment the other day. ...
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January 26, 2009
- I need a patron. Like Rembrandt or Michelangelo. Not that I am them. But maybe they wouldn’t have been them either if they hadn’t had patrons. And we would have been deprived of The Last Supper and the Sistine Chapel. I am sure, were I pressed, I could name you dozens of other great painters, writers, thinkers, inventors, who were supported by the rich and powerful just so they ...
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January 23, 2009
- I was in Quiznos the other day (the only place I go for what could be called “fast food”) and the owner, who is an acquaintance of mine, introduced me to a new employee and we got onto the subject of dating—don’t ask, you know how women talk in circles—and the woman expressed discouragement because the men she met were only interested in One Thing. I said “So what?” Which is the ...
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January 21, 2009
- As far as I know, they’re still giving trophies for just showing up. But, perhaps, in these economic times (my daughter says she’ll kill me if I say that one more time), we have all learned to tamp down any false self-esteem and get ahold of what’s real. If not, have I got a book for you — or at least for the women of the world. All the Wrong People have Self-esteem: An Inappropriate Book ...
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January 5, 2009
- About eighty miles from where I grew up and spent the first eighteen years of my life and forty miles from where my father lives now (and where I lived and worked for three years) in Knoxville, Tennessee, fifteen homeowners escaped with only their lives when a sludge of coal ash broke through an earthen dam and covered their houses in muck two days ago ...
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December 3, 2008
- I had this admittedly crazy idea to fly up north and fly with my mother back down to my small Virginia town so that she could spend a couple of days with me, see my teenaged daughter whom she hasn’t seen since this summer when we went up to celebrate her 80th birthday, see my 21-year-old son whom she hasn’t seen in a few years, and do a small pre- Hanukkah latke thing. I made all the ...
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November 24, 2008
- When cartoonist Walt Kelly said, in 1952, "We have met the enemy and he is us," he probably had no idea how applicable it would become throughout the years to follow. Yet for the people who shaped the 1960s and for whom by the 1970s "most of the significant components of the 1960s dream had come apart or had been subsumed, from both internal and external pressures," (Mikal ...
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November 19, 2008
- Emilia and Luzia are orphaned teenage sisters living in the late 1920s in the interior of northern Brazil. It’s a simple life but not without some small luxuries—whitewashed walls on their small but several-roomed home, an outhouse with a wooden door out back, plenty to eat, and work for the two girls and the aunt who is raising them. The three work as seamstresses in the small town of ...
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November 6, 2008
- I'm still reeling. Not just from the historic election results, but from working a fifteen-hour day yesterday at the polls. From 5 a.m. until 8:30 p.m. when we certified the last of the election results and got the huge and bulky envelopes ready for the chief to take with him, we worked tirelessly (well, perhaps at the end, tiredly) voting over two thousand people in the small third ward in the ...
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