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Growing up at a time when fat was fitting
(12/4/2001)
Once upon a time - a very long time ago - I became thin and was introduced to shame.

Sons-in-law have enriched the family
(11/27/2001)
When I picked up my daughter Hannah at the airport and drove her home to Durham for Thanksgiving in 1984, I kept hearing the name Michael, and when we got home I took Minnie Mae aside and said, ''It looks like we have a Michael in the family.''

Salute the old ways, but bless the new
(11/20/2001)
Thursday I'm going to give thanks for the ordinary, the commonplace, the taken-for-granted.

Drawn to far reaches of the imagination
(11/13/2001)
It is siesta time, but I choose to walk the empty streets of Donaldi, Tuscany, envisioning the lives of the people in cool, dark rooms behind the shuttered windows. I keep returning to this imaginary hill town in Italy, drawn by the beauty, the mystery, and, yes, the food and wine.

Writing nourishes self-discovery
(11/6/2001)
One of the many delights of writing this column is the accidental meeting with readers in a supermarket, bookstore, restaurant, or at a University of New Hampshire hockey game. They usually ask the same questions: ''Where do you get your ideas week after week?'' ''How do you write the column?''