by Debra Darvick | Apr 29, 2009 | Bookshelf
“Instructions for use: Open anywhere and if it irks you, try another page.” Eva Brann I have dog-eared so many pages of Eva Brann’s stout and wonderful collection of maxims — Open Secrets/Inward Prospects: Reflections on a World and Soul...
by Debra Darvick | Apr 21, 2009 | Musings
Scrabble is a near contact sport in our family. I’m fairly mild mannered but put a pale wooden rack before me, fill it with letter tiles and stand back. When it comes to Scrabble, I’ve been known to go for blood. Recorded in the tattered cardboard cover of our Deluxe...
by Debra Darvick | Apr 15, 2009 | Bookshelf
Breaking into my weekly post to give you all a heads up about a way cool media event. Chefs, brothers, sons of my friends Lynne and Marc, and all around good guys Eli and Max Sussman will be on the TODAY SHOW this Friday, April 17 cooking away with Hoda Kotb. Or...
by Debra Darvick | Apr 12, 2009 | Writing Life
“I really appreciated that she came to me for a filling. She needed x-rays, too, but I wasn’t sure I should charge for them. I don’t want to scare her off and lose her as a patient down the road. So I just did them for free.” “Well,...
by Debra Darvick | Apr 5, 2009 | Seasons
Been cleaning for Passover, a yearly ritual greeted with equal measures of excitement and dread. It’s such a pain! There are so many details! But if not for Pesach, would I ever take a toothbrush to the cabinet doorhinges or run a toothpick along the grooves of the...
