I was at dinner in Los Feliz recently trying to encourage a couple I’ve been friends with for more than 20 years to come see my boyfriend’s band play the following weekend. “It’s so fun,” I said. “It’s at a bar in the Valley, but Luis gives it the...
m. My wife and I are big crossword-puzzle people. I know I’ve asked this before, but I forget the answer. Why, in doing a challenging crossword, does it help to walk away from the puzzle for a day or two, then come back and look at the same clues again—...
wound up in the kitchen or bathroom for the rest of the day. There was a heap on a side table next to Poppy’s recliner, a neatly folded crossword page (halfway completed) next to Mama’s place on the sofa and the comics page spread out on the floor, covered in crayon scribbles. ...
there is a long dormant volcano just outside of Austin in the McKinney Falls State Park area. Have no fear, that volcano has been dormant for millions of years but evidence of its past activity can be found in the park.
I started this project as optimistic as someone who starts a crossword puzzle with a fountain pen. Now I am faltering. I ask Jim if his phone can receive pictures. I don’t want to make a mistake and buy the wrong tree. He waves me aside impatiently. ...
I understand how the internet works. I live on the internet for a living. I know that brands and outlets rush to the latest trend because, well, that's justwhat we do.That's how the thing works. Every little thing iseverythingfor a moment and then, like so many memes before it, ...
Four short years ago, I felt lucky after escaping one of those terrible 2-mile gym fitness runs.I hated1 ;it was just something that2came easily to me.At that time, if you had.told me that I would one day run a marathon, I'd have told you in all honesty that I had a better3...
I was a publishing director and was looking forward to embracing a new day of work, as always,that morning. I would always turn to the crossword, but that day it didn't 31 I'd been doing it for 30 odd years, but trying to read this one was like treading through syrup(糖浆): 32...
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Corbett, the paper’s grammarian, wrote an open letter to the newsroom warning against its use. He certainly could have objected that it made for lazy headline copy, or that a derogatory term was being misused as praise. Instead, he objected that it wasn’t clear enough what the word ...