Yearly Archives: 2011
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why I will never read Chris Mathews’ new book Jack Kennedy: “Elusive Hero”
Posted on November 13, 2011 by nikkimeredith in book reviews.I’m tempted to say I won’t read Chris Mathews’ new book, Jack Kennedy: The Elusive Hero because Mathews fawns and fawning is not a quality I desire in a biographer. If you don’t watch his show Hardball on MSNBC regularly, it might surprise you to learn that the in-your-face, swashbuckling, braggart is a world class […]
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imaginary friends and neighbors
Posted on November 10, 2011 by nikki in friendship, unexpected adventures.A few weeks ago I developed an intense attachment to a couple that lives in the neighborhood. It happened very quickly, the way some of the best friendships do. It was immediately clear how much we had in common – everything from our favorite kind of organic tea to the poetry of a lesser known […]
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mother-daughter relationships: then and now
Posted on November 7, 2011 by nikkimeredith in family, Mother-Daughter Relationships, odds and sods.Image via Couture Allure Easter Sunday. I’m 10 years old. While other families are attending Easter sunrise services at the Hollywood Bowl, my family is in my father’s Buick heading to Rand’s Roundup in Hollywood – a restaurant billed as an urban chuck wagon. I’m clutching my Easter basket – my brother is 14 and […]
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a different kind of mystery at the book festival
Posted on November 1, 2011 by nikki in unexpected adventures.All of the post-menopausal women from a 30-mile radius had descended upon the Senate Chamber. The event? A panel discussion among four authors about women changing their lives at the halfway mark. It was called “Take Two: Women on a New Path” and the venue was the Texas Book Festival a couple weeks ago. Now, […]
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fierce attachments: difficult mothers and the daughters who love them
Posted on October 27, 2011 by nikkimeredith in book reviews, love of a mother, Mother-Daughter Relationships.A few years ago I was at an all women dinner party and we started talking about our mothers. Because it’s Marin County — an area saturated with shrinks of all stripes — there was a lot of shrinkish vocabulary circulating the room. At one point when I talked about my mother and my complicated […]
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