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Memory Foam Back Support Cushion for Chair and Car - I sit at this table for many hours a day, reading and writing. As a kindness to my eyes, I look at the 24” screen of an Apple desktop. As
Mental Clarity - Carol Fitzgerald has been my partner in bookreporter.com for 25 years. Her memory is terrifying. Books, publishers, sales, writers — the modern history of publishing is in her head. Last week, an
Moleskine Notebooks - In a world of fads and scams, Moleskines are the real thing, a gold standard. The leather-like cover takes more wear than you’ll ever give it. The elastic band is
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Mother’s Day 2010 - I’ve resisted Mother’s Day for decades. And I’ve been right to --- the idea of ancestor worship was muscled aside long ago by Big Business. Now the day is about
Mother’s Day 2012 - The Wall Street Journal just published a guide to Mother’s Day gifts. You may imagine what it suggested. Or you can just read one of the online comments: A $625 nightgown! My mother
Mother’s Day 2013 - The first champion of Mother’s Day was Julia Ward Howe, who wrote "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." After the Civil War, she saw the possibility of equally deadly conflicts
Mother’s Day 2022: “The older you get, the more it matters.” - The older you get, the more it matters. What is “it?” Everything. Priorities are personal, but as I see people I know falling ill or leaving the planet, health seems
Mother’s Day 2023: Considering what’s happening, this is a general shout-out to all women who make a difference in our lives - Mary Cassatt often painted mothers and children, and when I went looking for an image to use for Mother’s Day, I found many that would make good illustrations. (See “Mother
Mother’s Day Suggestions 2005 - You wouldn't be blamed for thinking that Mother's Day was invented by 1-800-Flowers, Hallmark Cards, a bunch of candy manufacturers, and the owners of Red Lobster. In fact, its first champion
Mother’s Day, 2008 - Here's what marketers expect you to shell out: $682 million on greeting cards, $2.83 billion on restaurants, $2.14 billion on jewelry, $1.98 billion on flowers, $1.27 billion on clothes, $1.26
Mother’s Day, 2014 - Mother’s Day. Two fraught words. Loved ones, aging, not who they were. Loved ones, gone, the pain of that going nowhere. Or, as a friend once described her relationship with
Mother’s Day, 2015 - When your mother is 98, what do you give her for Mother’s Day? Anything she wants. Well, not the red Tesla with self-driving technology. Until my mother was in her 80s, I had
Mother’s Day, 2016 - My mother is 99. We’ve been doing this Mother’s Day dance for so long we're pretty good at it. The relationship part, anyway. I’m grateful. And she’s grateful. And that
Mother’s Day, 2017 - My mother is 100. For her epic birthday, we gave her the Amazon Echo. Now she has a new best friend: “Alexa,” who’s like a virtual Library of Alexandria.
Mother’s Day, 2018 - My mother is now 101. My Mother's Day gift? I call her every day. Your mother or wife or daughter is not 101. You may want to give her something
Mother’s Day, 2019 - In socio-political terms, Mother's Day is a loathsome, regressive holiday --- it's how we "thank" mom for a year of free labor. But set that aside. As long as
Mother’s Day, 2021: the first of the rest of our lives - "One of the defining images, at least from my perspective, in this crisis has been cars lined up. Cars lined up for miles --- nice cars, lined up for miles,
Murray Bruce: The Art of Dying - UPDATE: Murray Bruce died on Tortola on February 3, 2019. A quarter of a century ago --- so long ago it seems like the Pleistocene, so clear in memory it seems
