My Blog
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Six Easy Entertaining Tips
Six easy entertaining tips can go a long way, but truly, the more the merrier! I love having people over for dinner, and I enjoy entertaining, but I try to make it as stress-free as possible, otherwise I’d never do it.[…]
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"There Will Be No Hoochie Coochie Dancers in This Family!"
“There will be no hoochie coochie dancers in this family!” That was my grandmother’s proclamation when my mother, then just a teen, delivered the news that legendary dancer and choreographer Katherine Dunham ht[…]
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The Black and White of It: What Does it Mean to Be a Biracial Family in 2013?
A few years ago, an editor asked me if I would write about what it’s like raising biracial children with my Italian husband. While I am well aware of the racial strife that continues to thrive in this lovely country of[…]
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Navigating Loonies, Roller Skating on the West Side Highway, and Fiorucci’s: My New York Childhood
Inspired by last week’s New York magazine’s wonderful cover story, “Childhood in New York” http://nymag.com/news/features/childhood/, I could not help but reflect on my own. Back in the 1970s, the Upper West Side[…]
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30 Minutes in the Dark, with Needles
What does it take to get me to really sit still and shut up? Being immobilized by needles and electrodes in a dark room, apparently. No, this was not some wild and wretched sounding 50 Shades of Gray moment, just an atte[…]