Word: familiar
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Gallagher does an admirable job of getting attention's attention from every angle - relationships, work, play - using both science and philosophy. Yet underneath it all is that hippie dippy mantra, "Be here now." And while Gallagher's theme may ultimately be nothing more than a familiar '70s message repacked in prestigious new millennial clothes, it bears repeating. Now stop reading this and go pay attention to something important...
...aren’t completely separate: she is working on another novel that is inspired by her work in anthropology. “It’s really only in the writing itself that ideas come,” Dovey says, giving words to a sentiment that feels as familiar and universal as Expos. “If I plan it out too much, then I don’t want to write.” For now, at least, Dovey is following her own compass...
...third or fourth floor of a big house, not an entirely unfamiliar one, but one that I’ve been in two, maybe even three times before.I can tell that I’m the first, the only one, awake. It’s not so familiar that I don’t have to look for the bathroom, so I shuffle around in the thick shag carpeting until I find it, behind a crudely painted white door that hangs ajar amidst winter sunlight. It’s a tiny attic bathroom with a sharp eave descending over...
...While some might see forsaking the opportunity to gallivant around the Big Apple during young adulthood as being unadventurous or provincial, I interpret it as the opposite. Choosing to move to the rural South is not a retreat, but a venture into a world that is far less familiar to me than the streets of New York. I could easily see myself settling in the city, working in Manhattan, and coming to view a road trip as a drive to Queens. This terrifies...
...Their latest gambit to help pay off the former presidential candidate's remaining debt might be familiar to anyone who has ever had to run a raffle for a kid's preschool. The e-mails started going out last week, beseeching, "Make a $5 contribution today, and you could be on your way to one of these once in a lifetime opportunities!" Among them: a chance to spend a day with former President Bill Clinton, "followed by your own special New York City weekend." Or perhaps you would prefer lunch in Washington with consultants turned cable pundits James Carville...