(Excerpt from Marrying George Clooney, Confessions From A Midlife Crisis, Seal Press. Check out the vimeo at the end!) The clock reads 2:34 AM. I am determined to fall back asleep. Determined. I am determined to fall back asleep without any help from any sleep enhancement...
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A man at the gym approached me the other day and asked, “You’re out of school and in the workforce, huh?” “Out of school,” I replied, but wasn’t quite sure how to explain that I’m not in the workforce quite yet. I was, dare I...
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  Quinoa has been called the soul food of the Andes. It is pronounced “keen-wah” and comes from Peru and Bolivia. To the altiplano Indians who live in this region, it’s a nutritional super food and more valuable than gold. So, let’s end the day...
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By the end of the EP, even love is walking dead. “Zombie,” the darkest track on Wonder Whalen’s second EP, plaintively laments the remnants of a relationship stitched together by little more than self-imposed delusion. Specters make frequent appearances throughout the Seattle songwriter’s five new tracks, from a...
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Today, as I write this, it is Good Friday, and for the rest of us, it’s the 72-hour notice: Candy Season is almost over. Enjoy the Cadbury eggs while you can, because after Easter Sunday, there’s no more candy until Halloween (which now begins in...
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I drove home with the windows rolled down today.  I even complained that the sun was way too bright.  When I got home, I turned off the heat and threw open the windows.  Well, a window, at least. Dangerous.  There is definite danger here, in all this sun and warmth.  There is...
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While many claim they hate the old dictum, “you can’t yell fire in a crowded theater,” used to illustrate the practical limitations of freedom of speech, others have favored this shortcut ever since discovering it in our high school civics class. In fact, “yelling fire...
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By ANN M. EVANS and GEORGEANNE BRENNAN From the Ground Up Nigel Walker, the brain behind Dixon-based Eatwell Farm, is continually thinking of ways to increase the consumption of healthy, organic foods. He has hundreds of Community Supported Agriculture members from San Francisco to Sacramento,...
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