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    <title type="text">Baked Beans and Grünkohl: The Boston&#45;Hannover Channel</title>
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    <updated>2011-12-03T20:53:43Z</updated>
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      <title>Late August Walk in Forest Hills Cemetery</title>
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      <id>tag:fembio.org,2011:biographie.php/frau/blog-joey/4.1590</id>
      <published>2011-08-24T01:27:42Z</published>
      <updated>2011-12-03T20:53:43Z</updated>
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            <name>Joey Horsley</name>
            <email>rittajo.horsley@umb.edu</email>
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       &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; -Joey Horsley (Deutsche Übersetzung unten) Today we walked at Forest Hills, Historic graveyard, well maintained, Its residents, the living and the dead, Ignore the charms of nature and of art. Such pleasures are enjoyed By those who come to walk. A perfect day: the sun is warm, the breezes fresh; No one in sight but for a strolling older couple – She gives a smile, he glares and grunts – Would they be first-time visitors, Admiring statues &#8230; 
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      <title>Old Hat – What’s That? or: Old expressions never die; they just fade away.</title>
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      <id>tag:fembio.org,2011:biographie.php/frau/blog-joey/4.1584</id>
      <published>2011-08-06T22:17:29Z</published>
      <updated>2011-08-07T01:30:51Z</updated>
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            <name>Joey Horsley</name>
            <email>rittajo.horsley@umb.edu</email>
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       Do you remember the original?&nbsp; “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.” If you recall the quote and who said it, you must be almost as old as the general in question at the time he said it: Douglas MacArthur, 71, in his farewell speech to Congress in 1951 after having been fired by President Truman for speaking out of turn. I’ve been struck lately by the number of words or phrases that are no longer current, but increasingly jump unbidden to mind. It happens sometimes when I’m talking with Luise and have to explain a meaning; though her &#8230; 
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      <title>Aging in Place</title>
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      <id>tag:fembio.org,2011:biographie.php/frau/blog-joey/4.1557</id>
      <published>2011-06-29T06:20:29Z</published>
      <updated>2011-06-29T06:47:00Z</updated>
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            <name>Joey Horsley</name>
            <email>rittajo.horsley@umb.edu</email>
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       They say you’re only as old as you feel. But it’s increasingly hard to ignore one’s senior status given all the subtle and not-so-subtle reminders that come one’s way these days. My first shock came when Luise and I consulted a contractor about updating our kitchen. The back-story involves a mouse with a strong sense of entitlement, which had settled in behind our stove and emerged every evening to dash through the living room while we watched “Without A Trace.” The weeks of battle with the little invader involved an array of 18 traps of varying design and sophistication as &#8230; 
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      <title>&#8220;I Am Love&#8221; with Tilda Swinton: The Way to a Woman&#8217;s Heart ...</title>
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      <id>tag:fembio.org,2010:biographie.php/frau/blog-joey/4.1413</id>
      <published>2010-09-24T01:36:59Z</published>
      <updated>2010-12-26T21:24:00Z</updated>
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            <name>Joey Horsley</name>
            <email>rittajo.horsley@umb.edu</email>
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       My girlfriends and I enjoy going to the movies together. We treat ourselves first to a high-quality dinner out and update each other about our health and our grandchildren. We’re at the stage where strategies for falling and/or staying asleep have also become a favored topic of discussion, and it sometimes happens that one or the other of us otherwise insomniacs nods off in the darkened theater following our lavish meal and plentiful wine. We hoped this would not befall us during our most recent cinematic outing; after all, I am Love is a film about an older woman and &#8230; 
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      <title>Angela Steidele, Geschichte einer Liebe: Adele Schopenhauer und Sibylle Mertens</title>
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      <id>tag:fembio.org,2010:biographie.php/frau/blog-joey/4.1367</id>
      <published>2010-07-16T02:32:33Z</published>
      <updated>2010-12-26T21:24:34Z</updated>
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            <name>Joey Horsley</name>
            <email>rittajo.horsley@umb.edu</email>
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       Adele and Sibylle and Annette and Ottilie: Women in Love in 19th-Century Germany Review of Angela Steidele, Geschichte einer Liebe: Adele Schopenhauer und Sibylle Mertens (Berlin: Insel, 2010), Hardcover, 336 pages. By Joey Horsley Angela Steidele has written a beautiful, exhaustively researched account of the intimate friendship of Adele Schopenhauer and Sibylle Mertens Schaaffhausen, two brilliant but little-known Germans who lived in the first half of the 19th century. Through extensive use of largely unpublished letters and diary entries Steidele sensitively reconstructs the fascinating story of their lives and relationship, as they discover each other, move apart and then reunite &#8230; 
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      <title>Lesbian potpourri: Law and Order SVU’s latest caper</title>
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      <id>tag:fembio.org,2010:biographie.php/frau/blog-joey/4.1341</id>
      <published>2010-06-20T18:39:50Z</published>
      <updated>2010-09-29T11:16:51Z</updated>
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            <name>Joey Horsley</name>
            <email>rittajo.horsley@umb.edu</email>
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       I have to confess: I’m a “Law and Order” junkie. Despite the ever more contrived and sensationalizing plots, I find myself watching again and again. I especially liked the recently ended original version, with Epatha Merkerson as the drily understated Lieutenant Anita Van Buren. But I’ve even become a follower of the “Special Victims Unit” series that deals with sex offenders, in which “an elite squad,” the dazzling Detectives Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) – aided by their more rumpled colleagues Fin (Ice-T) and Munch (Richard Belzer) – unravel one improbable, grisly crime after another without &#8230; 
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      <title>Of Words and Women: Dictionaries and Their Discontents</title>
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      <id>tag:fembio.org,2010:biographie.php/frau/blog-joey/4.1324</id>
      <published>2010-05-29T16:52:10Z</published>
      <updated>2010-12-27T10:00:12Z</updated>
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            <name>Joey Horsley</name>
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       Each morning my Inbox greets me with a new word from A.Word.A.Day; it&#8217;s my vocabulary-building bulletin from Anu Garg of Wordsmith.org. Through these daily missives I have gained passing aquaintance with such interesting terms as “prandial” or “ploce” – passing because they always pass out of my mind before I can apply them against my sister in our weekly contest for superiority at Scrabble or UpWords. Yesterday’s word, “tabby,” was not so new to me, but the list of meanings gave me a jolt. Here’s the mail: Subject: A.Word.A.Day&#8212;tabby Date: Friday, May 28, 2010 12:19 AM From: Wordsmith To: Ritta &#8230; 
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      <title>Two from Argentina: “The Secret in their Eyes” and “The Headless Woman”</title>
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      <id>tag:fembio.org,2010:biographie.php/frau/blog-joey/4.1318</id>
      <published>2010-05-21T02:43:26Z</published>
      <updated>2011-04-23T14:27:27Z</updated>
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            <name>Joey Horsley</name>
            <email>rittajo.horsley@umb.edu</email>
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       Last week we saw two films, both from Argentina. One, “The Secret in Their Eyes,” (“El Secreto de sus Ojos,” director Juan Campanella) received the Oscar for the best foreign film of 2009. A sort of high-class combination of “Law and Order,” “Cold Case” and a long-thwarted romance, it revisits via flashbacks the 1974 investigation of the rape and murder of a beautiful young woman. Criminal-court investigator Benjamin Espósito (Ricardo Darín) originally solves the case by means of a group photograph showing the suspect gazing at the victim with an obsessive look – the secret in his eyes. The murderer &#8230; 
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      <title>Nordic Walking II: Marching in Boston, USA</title>
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      <id>tag:fembio.org,2009:biographie.php/frau/blog-joey/4.1200</id>
      <published>2009-08-23T01:49:39Z</published>
      <updated>2010-03-09T15:29:40Z</updated>
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            <name>Joey Horsley</name>
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       August, 2009. In an earlier blog I described my experiences in Germany learning about Nordic Walking, in which you walk briskly using special walking sticks similar to cross-country ski poles. Among the advantages: burning more calories, getting an upper-body workout, taking stress off creaky hips and knees. But while many walkers in Hannover have since added the activity to their fitness repertoire, I’ve not seen another Nordic Walker in all the months since I brought my poles home to Beantown. The sport just hasn’t caught on – at least not in my walking territory, the various parks and walks around &#8230; 
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      <title>A Historic Election – For Women Too!</title>
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      <id>tag:fembio.org,2008:biographie.php/frau/blog-joey/4.1040</id>
      <published>2008-11-13T08:58:45Z</published>
      <updated>2009-07-30T23:16:46Z</updated>
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            <name>Joey Horsley</name>
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       Much of the world rejoiced last week at the news that the US had elected its first African-American president. But that major milestone was not the only historic achievement of this political season. Advances by women, less euphorically trumpeted in the media, should also be noted, celebrated and emulated – starting with Hillary Clinton’s historic primary campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. The following firsts, reported by the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) at Rutgers University, are also worth cheering: • The number of female U.S. Senators has risen from 16 to 17, the highest ever. • In &#8230; 
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      <title>Georgia, Chechnya and the Babushkas: Thoughts on Sokurov&#8217;s &#8220;Alexandra.&#8221;</title>
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      <published>2008-09-01T18:41:01Z</published>
      <updated>2008-12-04T12:34:48Z</updated>
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            <name>Joey Horsley</name>
            <email>rittajo.horsley@umb.edu</email>
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       Another urgent email from Oxfam America’s Tim Fullerton has just landed in my Inbox, awakening me from the constant Obama-McCain news-stream; Tim is asking for donations to respond to the Georgian crisis, among other disasters. I am reminded that just two weeks ago our constant surfeit of Olympic news was also interrupted – though only sporadically – by reports of violence in South Ossetia. Where? South what? We had barely heard of this region, whose name sounded more like a fictitious location in some Lehár operetta or Walt Disney production. But soon enough we were hearing conflicting stories about Georgian &#8230; 
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      <title>Nordic Walking – the next Olympic Sport?</title>
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      <id>tag:fembio.org,2008:biographie.php/frau/blog-joey/4.973</id>
      <published>2008-08-24T19:35:39Z</published>
      <updated>2009-07-30T04:15:40Z</updated>
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            <name>Joey Horsley</name>
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       We’ve been saturated these last weeks with television images of sweating beach volleyballers, quivering gymnasts and sleek divers with more or less splash, not to mention the flying, crashing BMX bikers, newly added to the Olympics this year. Media coverage (at least that of NBC) has often focused on the personal stories behind the athletes’ feats, and we frequently hear how inspiring it is that such and such a race swimmer is competing again, although she’s already 41. Or a diver is trying one last time for gold, even at age 30, against those half her age. Such stories are &#8230; 
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      <title>Interpreting Maladies: Reading Jhumpa Lahiri and Other Timely “Texts”</title>
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      <published>2008-08-10T17:20:00Z</published>
      <updated>2008-12-15T20:24:53Z</updated>
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            <name>Joey Horsley</name>
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       These days we can’t seem to get enough of films and books about intercultural experience: A few years back it was The Kite Runner (2003), Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling first novel and then film about a boy growing up in Afghanistan who is transplanted to California after the Soviet invasion of his country. In 2000 Jhumpa Lahiri won the Pulitzer Prize for her first collection of stories, Interpreter of Maladies, about characters moving between traditional East Indian culture and east-coast life in the U.S., while her novel The Namesake (2003), dealing with similar themes, was repackaged as a successful film (2007). &#8230; 
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      <title>Not so savage after all: Thoughts on “The Savages”</title>
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      <published>2008-08-02T18:19:00Z</published>
      <updated>2008-11-16T12:29:11Z</updated>
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            <name>Joey Horsley</name>
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       “That was so depressing.” “What a depressing movie!” The comments of the mostly late-middle-aged patrons exiting the theatre in West Newton were uniformly negative. My sister’s were no different. Still in her seat as the credits for “The Savages” began to roll, she had blurted out, “I didn’t like that! It reminded me too much of everything we went through with Mom.” Like Lenny Savage, the aging father movingly played by Philip Bosco, our mother had spent sad and difficult weeks in a nursing home before she died, almost exactly ten years past. Like him, she showed signs of dementia &#8230; 
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      <title>Reclaiming the Inner Bitch?&amp;nbsp; A Meditation on the B&#45;Word</title>
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      <id>tag:fembio.org,2007:biographie.php/frau/blog-joey/4.734</id>
      <published>2007-08-16T19:43:00Z</published>
      <updated>2008-10-03T07:03:52Z</updated>
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            <name>Joey Horsley</name>
            <email>rittajo.horsley@umb.edu</email>
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       In her recent column “Bitch und Bastard” (08/12/07) LFP writes about the heavy association of the word “bitch” with Hillary Clinton, who currently leads the (dog)pack of US presidential candidates among Democrats. “She seems to have a monopoly on this label,” suggests Luise, who provides statistics showing almost two million Google-hits for “Hillary” and “bitch,” compared to a mere 379,000 for “Obama” and the male epithet “bastard.” She also notes, however, that the more (in)famous Bush did rate over 2 million hits when paired with “bastard,” while the powerful but secretive Dick Cheney was the recipient of some 500,000 “bastard” &#8230; 
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