Claire Conger

Note to self: When a good looking and interesting guy asks you for a beer, say YES!

I decided to try skiing, so yesterday I did! It was so fun.

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I was thoroughly entertained listening to Kathe Mazur’s reading of The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus.

The Nanny Diaries does what a good book ought, transport the reader—listener—to a different world. In this case, it’s upper-class Manhattan where the rich are clueless.

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Last night at a party I had a fun little conversation with Heidi Kearsley, a successful real estate agent with Wells&Bennett in Oakland California. Heidi recently sent out postcards, the kind agents send out to drum up business.

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Last night I watched The Hours, a movie based on Michael Cunningham’s 2000 novel of the same name.

The Hours is a haunting psychodrama around the suicide of Virginia Woolf (played by Nicole Kidman) with the death theme running throughout.

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I decided I needed to expand my horizons, so I paid $45 to go to Spirit Rock Meditation Center to hear Buddhist Sylvia Boorstein speak on happiness. Actually, she was selling her book Happiness Is an Inside Job.

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