@11:40, 11/3/17

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Well

This Is How You Pick Up a Phone

By LESLIE KENDALL DYE | Nov 3rd 2017

My mother’s brain is as topsy-turvy as our apartment, but my daughter is tidying the surface of her grandmother’s addled mind.

Five year olds are magic.
To them the world is demented and loving

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Crosswords & Games

Not Let Go of Something

By DEB AMLEN | Nov 3rd 2017

Kameron Austin Collins and Brendan Emmett Quigley make a fine Friday puzzle and a really, really long byline.

Serial thinking.
My twisty mind gets grainy without much help.
Often I can't follow myself.
Give words a tilt and they take to the lists.

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Well

The Weekly Health Quiz: Weight Loss, Heart Surgery and Marathon Recovery

By TOBY BILANOW | Nov 3rd 2017

Test your knowledge of this week’s health news.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/well/trying-the-feldenkrais-method-for-chronic-pain.html

6/7

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Style

Recognizing What They Had, 20 Years Too Late

By NICKY RADCLIFFE | Nov 3rd 2017

A closeted gay woman didn’t know how to have platonic love with a man. Decades later, she wishes she had been brave enough to try.

There was nothing of the platonic for me.
Platonic is for pictures.
Shadows on the walls of Plato's cave.

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Well

Do Prepackaged Salad Greens Lose Their Nutrients?

By RONI CARYN RABIN | Nov 3rd 2017

Some greens lose more nutrients than others with washing and storage.

I don't worry much about neutrition.
"Eat food; mostly vegetables."

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T Magazine

How to Protect Your Skin Against Winter Dryness

By KARI MOLVAR | Nov 2nd 2017

As the temperatures drop, relief against chapped skin comes in the form of next-generation skin soothers.

I do not live in an Irish bog.
Do what feels good to you.

I would rather not sleep with the sandpaper.

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Opinion

Lovers, Prospectors and Predators

By DAVID BROOKS | Nov 2nd 2017

Men don’t just wake up one day and become sexual harassers or attackers.

Human behavior could look like that from the outside.

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Magazine

Letter of Recommendation: Cabbages and Kings

By DAN KOIS | Nov 2nd 2017

A game that’s actually fun to play with your children.

I don't recognize the game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin_rummy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rummy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cribbage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Bank
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_bridge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nertz

I am a terrible poker player.

All were played.

https://www.amazon.com/Hoyles-Rules-Games-Revised-Updated/dp/0452283132/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1509776720&sr=8-1

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Science

Ancient Fossil Offers a New European Ancestor to Giraffes

By KAREN WEINTRAUB | Nov 1st 2017

Found near Madrid, the fossil provides evidence that members of the giraffe family roamed Europe much earlier.

Another piece in the fossil record.

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Food

A Bronx Takeout Spot Honors the Memory of a Mother

By LIGAYA MISHAN | Nov 2nd 2017

Margarita’s, serving Dominican cuisine, is a permanent version of what once was a food truck.

As convenient.


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