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(July 1995-June 1996)
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(July 1997-June 1998)
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(July 1998-June 1999)
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(July, 1999-December, 2000)
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(January, 2001-present)
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See the rest of my online work at Marylaine.com
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E-mail marylaine at netexpress.net
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Computer Shy -- the role computers play in popular fiction tells us a lot about our fears.
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Dixieland Thought -- a good conversation is like Dixieland jazz
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Fitter to Print -- what would newspapers be like if real writers, not reporters, covered the various beats?
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The Daily Mawgid -- if newspapers don't quite seem to get it, it may be because so many of the reporters are Mawgids
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Folkways of the Iowans -- on such summer rites as the annual bike ride against Iowa and the Bix run (and Bix sit)
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What Does a Woman Want? -- the way to find out is to read romance novels.
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Dogs on the Net -- on how the net allows us to meet mind to mind, without assumptions about each other based on our physical appearance.
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Only Humans -- we're more like animals than we think, but here are some ways we are utterly unique.
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Conventional Wisdom -- explaining political conventions to my (then) British audience.
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Carless and Carfree -- on the joys of living without a car.
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History Story -- we forget too often that history is not a collection of dates, but a collection of grand stories.
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Son Rise -- on my son
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Mean and Stupid -- on our politics.
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Dr. Death -- why Dr. Kevorkian to me is both macabre and necessary.
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Driven to Distraction -- on driving my son to Boston.
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Wild Kingdom -- on the shy but hopeful people who lurk on the net.
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The Dilbertizing of America -- three books I read suggest that work has changed for the worse in America.
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Unifying Vision -- what were the top 100 moments on TV? And would our answers match TV Guide's?
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Afraid of the Net
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From Books to Bytes -- how did a nice old lady like me end up on the net?
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ReadAlouds -- books so good you need to grab the nearest child so you have an excuse to read them outloud.
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Immoral Certainty -- our certainty keeps us from understanding each other, and from learning more.
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Baxter in Charge -- on America's foreign policy.
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Bar None -- what a world without lawyers might be like.
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Merry Christmas
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To My Known and Unknown Fans -- trying to figure out how I attract the particular set of fans I know about.
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That Was the Year That Was -- my annual review of the last year's reading.
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The Enchanted Toy Shop -- the net is not only a source of great information but the greatest toy store adults ever gave themselves.
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The Four Seasons -- why I love the midwest and wouldn't settle in the south or west.
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The Ghost of Christmas Future -- how Christmas has changed since I was a kid.
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Plan Ahead -- we live in a culture that fosters impatience.
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New and Improved
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The World Inside Your Head -- we don't believe what we see -- we see BECAUSE we believe.
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The Cat in the Book -- about the mysterious relationship between cats and booklovers.
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Visigoths -- how librarians became the new barbarians
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It's Like This -- on metaphor.
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Beauty and the...Rest of Us -- on our curiously mixed feelings about beauty.
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Survey of Men 101 -- I asked my male readers what they want in a women, and this is what they said.
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And Now for Something Completely Inconsequential -- a column about silly e-mail games.
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To: Lions / From: Christians -- on librarians and censors.
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Patron Saint of Dustbunnies -- on my regrettable housekeeping style.
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Without Skin -- a tribute to Anne Lamott.
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Let's Assume... -- on our underlying assumptions, so basic to us that we hardly even know they're there until they're challenged.
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Mail by the Ton -- on sorting the library's junk mail
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Becoming a Book, Part I -- playing the game of Fahrenheit 451; if you had to save a book by memorizing it, what book(s) would you keep alive and why? My answers.
- Becoming a Book, Part II -- your answers.
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