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4/27: Underfoot

Posted on April 10, 2014 by maryangelis

The Artist was coming to town. Our department was arranging it all: the airport welcome, the red carpet rollout at the college club, the public meet & greet; refreshments, parking, audio-visual aids, seating, all the fanfare. For one festive week … Continue reading →

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3/23: Excerpt from Smoke: You Like Tomato…

Posted on March 23, 2014 by maryangelis

Smoke is the working title of a Leningrad novel I’ve been writing for years, a Cold-War romance about falling in love with not only one person but with his entire culture. It’s a source of endless absorption on evenings and … Continue reading →

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Film: The Irony of Fate, or Have a Nice Bath! (Ирония судьбы, или c легким паром!)

Posted on January 6, 2014 by maryangelis

The literal subtitle is “With a Light Steam!,” the traditional cordial wish to anyone who is heading into a bath house. This wacky New Year’s comedy from the USSR is an ode to accidental romance and to washing up for … Continue reading →

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12/23: Winter Solstice, 1995

Posted on December 24, 2013 by maryangelis

Kyrie and I found a studio to live in, just in time for winter. It took seven months of searching to find a management company who allowed small birds, but at last I signed the lease for one year in … Continue reading →

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12/13: Immaculate

Posted on December 10, 2013 by maryangelis

Just for the record, just so you know who you are dealing with here, when that unexpected detour came along all I wanted was to stay alert and keep moving. After all, we were two women in a neighborhood famous … Continue reading →

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11/7: Re-Confessed

Posted on November 11, 2013 by maryangelis

This week I went to confession, after not going for years. Years? How did that happen? Because at the Sacrament of Reconciliation, overworked parish priests haven’t had time to sit there and figure out what-all I was rattling on about. … Continue reading →

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Film Review, “I’ll Be Around” (2012) — Я буду рядом

Posted on October 17, 2013 by maryangelis

An appealing lovable courageous heroine faces her own mortality. It’s a grand film tradition in Russia. It is in America too. “No Sad Songs For Me,” “Love Story,” “Beaches,” “Shadowlands,” “Terms of Endearment” — we still make them, and still … Continue reading →

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Commemoration Kutia (Кутья на память)

Posted on August 25, 2013 by maryangelis

A dish with sweets for the senses, and the soul: At church last night before Vespers there was a candlelight Moleben, a supplication service. This one was a memorial for a young man in Ukraine. After the chanting and incense … Continue reading →

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7.14.13 White Peony

Posted on July 14, 2013 by maryangelis

It was a clear hot summer day, just before sunrise. Walking from Winthrop to the Blue Line train at Orient Point, I jogged along through tall blond reeds under the flight path to Logan. Plane after plane loomed sounds and … Continue reading →

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6/15: Anybody’s Kitchen

Posted on May 27, 2013 by maryangelis

I was carrying bathwater to the porch when the phone rang. “It’s a case for Mary!” said Cashier Robin, calling from the Food Coop. “A family here needs a cooking teacher for their new diet. No sugar, dairy, wheat, nightshades, … Continue reading →

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