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Veronica Chambers
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Mar 28, 2008 06:59 PM
Jeanine Payer , the jewelry designer, is holding a contest in honor of April, National Poetry Month . This is how it's going down. As a writer, it doesn't get better for me than Jeanine Payer's jewelry. I love the way she hand inscribes wonderful moving...
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Veronica Chambers
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Mar 28, 2008 01:36 PM
My husband and I aren't big fans of traditional breakfast foods. So many weekend mornings, we make this savory risotto instead. Veronica's Breakfast Risotto 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) butter, divided 4 seasoned sausages, I like white wine and garlic, but...
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Veronica Chambers
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Mar 27, 2008 01:43 PM
A short but touching tale in which our intrepid blogger shares a trainer with NL MVP Jimmy Rollins and tries to prove that she's got game. My trainer, Aaron Sistrunk , just got back from spring training with his star client . It's not easy to share a...
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Veronica Chambers
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Mar 25, 2008 05:15 PM
It's a game chefs have been playing for decades. In the wee hours, when the restaurant has closed and they crack open a bottle of wine, the great chefs of the world ask each other, "If you were to die tomorrow, what would be your last meal on earth?"...
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Veronica Chambers
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Mar 20, 2008 08:59 AM
H2O, A Love Story I know that it’s good for me, but I just can’t seem to get the water thing down. I watch with admiration as people tote large bottles around, filling and refilling them, chugging tap water like it was tequila on spring break. But I feel...
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Veronica Chambers
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Mar 17, 2008 07:55 PM
Polaroid quietly stopped making its eponymous cameras a year ago. Come 2009, you won't be able to buy instant film. Am I and André Benjamin the only old school shutterbugs who love this stuff? Yesterday I went to see my grandfather in the nursing home...
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Veronica Chambers
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Mar 14, 2008 10:19 AM
Given our tangled history of cooking, cleaning, birthing and minding babies -- going back to slavery and through the 20th century -- can a modern black woman be a domestic goddess? Does she even want to? Per the request of some readers, this week's Sunday...
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Veronica Chambers
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Mar 12, 2008 07:46 AM
As the Democratic primaries heat up and head to my new home state of Pennsylvania, it becomes clear that joblessness is a huge issue. Pennsylvania has lost over 20,000 manufacturing jobs since 2001 and that's a tragedy. But it's also a crying shame when...
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Veronica Chambers
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Mar 10, 2008 05:02 PM
In Philadelphia alone, there are over 60,000 children being raised by a grandparent. Nobody throws baby showers for a silver haired, second time around "Mama-Nana." But they need diaper bags, cribs and all the other baby paraphernalia that a newborn requires....
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Veronica Chambers
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Mar 7, 2008 06:53 AM
Men In the Kitchen: It was an all guy cooking group, no girls allowed. But I brought my A game and a big pot of Japanese beef stew. When I was in Japan, researching my book about the changing roles of Japanese women, Kickboxing Geishas , I got to experience...
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Veronica Chambers
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Mar 5, 2008 08:54 AM
A few weeks ago, my new BFF, Nina, invited me and my old BFF, Lise , to a pillow party. I had no idea what a pillow party was. But Nina said, "It's like build a bear for grown-ups." So off we went to Fill A Pillow , a darling little shop in Haverford,...
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Veronica Chambers
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Mar 3, 2008 10:53 AM
They come at you like images from some long forgotten painting by Henry Ossawa Tanner: girls jumping double dutch next to field scenes of men and women working the crops; kids balling, 19th century style, with hoops set high in trees while happy couples...
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