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(July 1995-June 1996)
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(July 1996-June 1997)
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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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Two Years Before the Masthead -- reflecting on the first two years of the column
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Take a Good Look -- people overlook and underestimate old ladies.
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Things That Make Me Go "Huh?" -- sometimes the world does not make sense.
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Learning To Be Plaid -- learning to forgive people for their imperfections and failures
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Half-Wired -- online, but not a full-fledged geek
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Half a Human -- how we learn to act our gender, or choose not to
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Words To Be Wise -- we need words to think with
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Saved by Katharine Hepburn -- the undying appeal of the screwball comedy
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We're Number 300! -- I wouldn't put my town at the bottom of Forbes' list of most livable cities
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Playing Hooky at the Start of School -- poems by my son, Brian Block
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Give Me Liberty -- trying to understand libertarians, part I
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Remote Control -- trying to understand Libertarians, part II
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A Death in the Family -- the death of an independent bookstore is a sad thing
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The Mouse Police -- on the joys of owning kittens
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Something Wicked This Way Comes -- an appreciation of Stephen King
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While You've Got It, Flaunt It -- my list of things not to die before doing
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The Internet Made Me Do It -- yet another bad rap fastened on the internet
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Shiny Happy People -- on how incredibly easy it is to make people in TV ads blissfully happy
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Power Failure -- we have far more power than we realize
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the Almost Perfect State -- my idea of an almost perfect utopia
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Advice for Desperate Men, revised -- on buying gifts for women
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Lighting Candles -- on the teachers that light candles in our minds and change our lives
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To Serve You Better -- why is it so many frustrating annoying innovations in our lives are supposed to serve us better?
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Drawing with a Skewer -- on editorial cartoons
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The Cat's Christmas
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Thanks for Christmas -- on the utter sappy enjoyment with which I approach the season.
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My Year in Books
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Attention Deficit -- how hard it is to pay attention when there's so much stuff going on
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Oh, Do You Know the Muppet Man? -- a tribute to Jim Henson
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Testing, 1,2,3,4 -- one of the great untested assumptions is that tests actually do measure what they say they measure
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Making Monsters -- how bullies were allowed to turn into monsters because none of the adults would stop them
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Ask Better Questions -- if you want better answers
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Stuck Together with God's Glue -- what we gain from suffering
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Starr Chamber -- on the special prosecutor's absolute determination to find something to get Bill Clinton on
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Categorical Denial -- our mental categories can inhibit our understanding of the world
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Winning the Title -- on choosing good titles for columns, books, and such
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One of a Kind -- we desperately want to be unique and to be known.
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Five Letter Word -- how did "adult" come to mean depraved?
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All By Myself -- we give ourselves credit for all our accomplishments, but give no credit to the society that helped us do it
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Ghetto Blaster -- some thoughts on using the strengths of the people in the inner city to improve their neighborhoods and lives
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The Queen of Touchy-Feely -- on the orgasms of sentiment surrounding Princess Di's death
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A Sharing of Books -- my friends and I talk about books we love
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The Woman from F.I.B.S. -- a tribute to Christine Lavin
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Roses by a Different Name -- makers of modern day proverbs
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How I Spent My Summer Vacation -- my first trip to the Rockies
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A Field of Dreams -- on the unreal but lovely world of college campuses
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Sexual Harassment -- trying to figure out some rules men could safely abide by
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Getting to Solla Sollew -- a tribute to Dr. Seuss
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Arguably Better -- some civilized ground rules for dealing openly with conflict
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Borders Skirmish -- an answer to the librarian who claimed Borders does a better job than libraries do
- Scribbles on Pages -- my answer to the question, "how do you think up this stuff, anyway?"
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