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A sampling of letters to the editor, online comments and other reader feedback about The Washington Post Magazine.
A business journalist moonlights as an author and book publisher
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Peter Barnes knows business inside and out. For the past 17 years, the chief Washington correspondent for Fox Business Network has run a lucrative sideline: a children's book business that has helped him and his wife buy a vacation home on the Massachusetts island where it all started, Nantucket.
Sky-dive instructor, Sky Dive Orange, Falls Church
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I was and still am terrified of heights. We used to go to Kings Dominion every summer, and everyone would ride the roller coasters except my mother and me. But people with height anxiety do well sky-diving: That's what I tell my students and myself. When you're up there, you have no reference point....
Can two teachers find anything else to talk about?
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Can two teachers find anything else to talk about?
Tell us about a time when 'just one more' was way too much
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For our recent vacation, my girlfriend and I went rock climbing in Nevada's breathtaking Red Rock Canyon. Early in the trip, we spent a long day practicing traditional climbing, which involves placing gear in cracks to hold a harnessed climber's fall. Hiking back to the car afterward, I spotted a...
Her Oxford pen pal wanted a different message
By Elizabeth Strout, Page W10
Elizabeth Strout writes a memoir for The Washington Post Magazine about a summer lesson learned from an amorous English pen pal.
The lessons from her mother ran deep
By Ursula Hegi, Page W14
Ursula Hegi writes about her mother's death in a memoir for The Washington Post Magazine's Summer Reading Issue.
She could see their whole life together -- but she couldn't ignore the signs
By Aimee Bender, Page W18
Aimee Bender writes about her search for symbols in her effort to cope with the pain of a failed marriage in a memoir for The Washington Post Magazine's Summer Reading Issue.
A first trip abroad, three American women, and plenty of fog
By Ken Kalfus, Page W22
Ken Kalfus writes about his first adventures abroad in a memoir for The Washington Post Magazine's Summer Reading Issue.
At C.F. Folks, it's impossible to resist the shtick with your lunch
By Tom Sietsema, Page W28
**C.F. Folks 1225 19th St. NW 202-293-0162 www.cffolksrestaurant.com
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"The Dining Out column used to be one of my favorite features in The Washington Post," writes Frank Branchini in a letter. "But it is a column I barely look at any more." His reason? "I can't remember the last time you gave even a passing nod to vegetarians."
In art therapy, we could let our crayons do the talking
By Laura Boswell, Page W35
Of all the sessions at Suburban Hospital's outpatient mental health services day program in Bethesda, art therapy was my favorite. Our therapist, Esther ...
Why Gene's Twitter Audience Has Grown
By Gene Weingarten, Page W36
I have just solved one of the thorniest challenges facing many modern businesses, including my own: how to monetize the Web. Without this knowledge, newspapers are dying. The music industry is suffering. Even the fabulously popular online social networking site Twitter hasn't quite figured it out:...
