Articles Written By Liz Entman Harper
TMN Copy Editor Liz Entman Harper has lived in St. Louis, New York, and Nashville. She sweats the small stuff, like hyphens and commas, and has a day job, but won’t bore you with the details. Drop her a line.
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Pie Is Not a Gel (and Other Thanksgiving Tips)
As a result, sometimes stuff gets cold, or burnt. We usually eat at least an hour later than planned. We make conversational beelines toward politics and religion. At least one...
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Ornithology
Naturally, I have to procrastinate first, but at least I’m procrastinating intelligently (or so I tell myself) by reviewing Anne Lamott’s sublime Bird by Bird: Some...
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Girl Talk
I’ve been thinking a lot about the state of modern girlhood lately. My husband and I have 10 much-younger girl cousins between us, mostly in middle and high school,...
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Educated Guess
Five years ago, I joined MetaFilter. MetaFilter began as—and primarily remains—an online space for members to share interesting links and comment on them. Period, end of...
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Tennis Fan
As a copy editor, your job is to enforce the rules of grammar, spelling, and style, and do so with enough conviction and authority that you don’t have...
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Over It
When “Repress Yourself” was published in the New York Times magazine in February 2003, it had been 18 months since Sept. 11, and someone had finally dared to suggest we might...
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This Is My Problem
Emily Yoffe, author of Slate’s thoroughly enjoyable “Dear Prudence,” summed it up nicely: “Judaism is a religion that focuses on justice in this world. It...
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The Doctor Is in, Baby
But I digress. The simple fact is, I hate being asked questions I can’t answer. It’s maybe the thing I hate most in the world, besides...
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Spanx Is the New Plastics
If you really want cash, don’t register for gifts. Enlist your parents and siblings to help spread the word in a low-key way. Don’t spend more...
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Dear Mr. Jesus
The thing is, I had no idea: I was raised Jewish. Most of what I knew about him came from deflected evangelism, The Last Temptation of Christ, and my apparently...
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Girls, You Never Know
OK, so my gay BFF in high school didn’t really fit the stereotype, except that he did always give excellent advice. But it wasn’t just the...
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No One Commences Like This Anymore
My college graduation speaker really did begin—and end—his speech with “Today is the first day of the rest of your lives.” Did he also...