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The Nature of the Mundane: The Human Chin
Fifty years of solving the NY Times Crossword puzzles have blessed me with a peculiar vocabulary, but I also revel in their creative themes and clues. I settle in for Sunday breakfast, open the Times magazine and wonder how long … Continue reading
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Podcast: The Nature of the Mundane: The Human Chin
The human chin is the defining anatomical feature of modern humans Follow Liza Blue on: Share:
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Podcast: If Looks Could Whistle
The defining identity of a loud whistle. Follow Liza Blue on: Share:
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If Looks Could Whistle
I grew up in a gender-neutral household, the only daughter with five brothers. You might have thought my mother would have doted on her only daughter, but she never singled me out with any advice on what it meant to … Continue reading
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Marketing Unplugged: Pot Pourri, Vol 2
Marketing Unplugged: Pot Pourri, Volume 2 Toothpicks I was surprised that the grocery store offered such a variety of toothpicks. I was experimenting with tater tots as a provocative appetizer at my grazing cocktail party, one of those affairs where … Continue reading
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At Seventy
I sit in the leather chair, feet outstretched on the ottoman, pillow on my stomach, book resting on top of that. I have a very limited view of myself, basically my hands and the outline of my feet inside a … Continue reading
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My Warbler
(Artwork by Maria McNitt – www.mariamcnitt.com) The blue-winged warbler struggles as I extract him from the fine netting stretched across the underbrush. Our instructor Caleb assures us that this will only be a tiny interruption in his migration, and the information … Continue reading
Open Letter to Peg Bracken
Dear Peg, I am writing to thank you for saving my mother’s life, not in terms of death and dying, but in the sanity sense of the word. She clung to your 1960 cookbook, The I Hate to Cookbook … Continue reading
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My Human Pearls
When I first wore my necklace, I made sure the new bead was discreetly hidden under my shirt collar. It would have blended well with the others. But it was uniquely mine and I didn’t want to share it just … Continue reading
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Open Letter to Stephen Hawking
There is one thing humans have relied on, well beyond the standard cliché of death and taxes. It is the universal standard of a second as an enduring constant across cultures and time. Some extremist with a jittery trigger finger … Continue reading