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	<description>a fish trapped inside the wind*</description>
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		<title>The Cooper-Hewitt</title>
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The Cooper-Hewitt is a quirky little museum, an outpost of the Smithsonian Institution located on New York City&#8217;s Museum Mile. It occupies the graceful Andrew Carnegie mansion at the corner of 91st and Fifth Avenue, across the street from Central Park and a few blocks north of the Guggenheim Museum. Unlike the Guggenheim, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pasha&#8217;s Music</title>
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&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; The Pasha loves Konstanze and wants to add her to his Turkish harem, but not by force, only if she can return his love. She, a shipwrecked Spanish noblewoman stranded on an alien shore, has already given her heart to another and resolves to be faithful to her Belmonte, even though the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judgment</title>
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&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; We knew nothing of Madame outside the walls of our convent school.&#160; 
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; The nuns were a French order. Madeleine Sophie Barat founded the order to teach the daughters of the upper middle class during the French Revolution. Religious education was forbidden during Robspierre&#8217;s Reign of Terror and Madeleine Sophie went to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Reading Out Loud</title>
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Manguel, Alberto. A History of Reading. Viking, 1996.
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&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; For most of us, reading is an act of pleasure&#8212;entertainment, an absorbing quest for knowledge. A good book can provide a break from our humdrum routine or from difficult emotional or physical demands. According to Alberto Manguel, reading is not an entirely innocuous activity.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come and Get It</title>
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Margaret Visser. Much Depends on Dinner. Grove Press, 1986.
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&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Margaret Visser&#8217;s title is Much Depends on Dinner. And her book proves that dinner depends on much. She deconstructs an ordinary home-cooked meal, one that would be accepted by North Americans as unremarkable&#8212;corn with salt and butter, chicken with rice, lettuce with olive oil [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://janemerryman.com/archives/55</link>
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		<title>Behind the Tightly Closed Door</title>
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Armstrong, Karen. Through the Narrow Gate. St. Martin&#8217;s Press, 1994.
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&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Silence. Isolation. Repression of the senses and the intellect. Public humiliation.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Prison? No. Life in a Roman Catholic convent, a life that leads through a narrow gate.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; 
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; I came to this book in a roundabout way. A bad cold kept me home [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://janemerryman.com/archives/54</link>
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		<title>Language Lesson</title>
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&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; A veranda under a pouf of purple bougainvillea. A wooden table, the surface hidden by dog-eared dictionaries, coverless novels, and loose sheets of paper runed with scribblings. Two chairs from the 1950s, of metal tubing (rusting) and red plastic (decomposing). Propped against the peeling wall, a chalkboard with the days of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chimney Rock, Point Reyes National Seashore</title>
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Chimney Rock
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It&#8217;s a long, slow drive to the point at Point Reyes National Seashore. For wildflowers, wildlife, and views, I can&#8217;t think of a better place than Chimney Rock, a finger of granite and conglomerate that juts out from the headlands into Drakes Bay. Chimney [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Make Huckleberry Muffins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; First, pick the huckleberries.
&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; Huckleberries have not been successfully tamed and are not grown commercially. You can&#8217;t pop into Safeway and pick up a can of Wyman&#8217;s huckleberries. So, the first step in making muffins is to find a patch of wild huckleberries.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Some years ago my friend Carol introduced [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://janemerryman.com/archives/49</link>
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		<title>Crissy Field, San Francisco</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Length of hike: 1.3 miles from East Beach to Torpedo Wharf
Difficulty: Easy
Best time: Any clear day
Highlights: Bay, bridge, city&#8212;what more could you want?
To get there: If you are already in San Francisco, take Marina Boulevard toward the Golden Gate Bridge. At the west end of the Marina Green, bear right on Mason Street into the [...]]]></description>
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