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Feel the Burn, Baby
“It’s your thing, do what you wanna do.” Just the other day I was listening to an old Isley Brothers tape, and that refrain from their smash hit got me to rocking and to thinking. I’d been feeling beleaguered. Kwanzaa. The Martin Luther King holiday. Black History Month. It seemed as if every African American in the country was calling me up with an exclusive, never-been-told-before news story that only I could write. As one of a handful of black reporters at my paper, I’m accustomed to being the “race woman,” but I’d hit a wall. Inspired by the soulful words of the Isleys, I decided to just take charge of my life and do what I wanted to do. I requested vacation for all of January and most of February, busy months for black journalists.
As I make plans to travel to Lake Tahoe, it’s clear to me that it’s a lot easier than we may think to seize the moment. And it works wonders for our health.
“If there’s one thing I tell my patients, it’s that they’ll feel better if they take control of their lives,” says Princeton, New Jersey physician Dr. Trissa Baden. “There’s not question that reducing stress improves a person’s physical and emotional health.”
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Eric Asimov
American wine critic and food critic
Eric Asimov | |
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Born | (1957-07-17) July 17, 1957 (age 67) Bethpage, New York, U.S. |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, The New York Times chief wine critic; author; literary agent |
Spouses | Jacalyn Lee (m. 1989, divorced)Deborah Hofmann (m. 2001) |
Children | 2 |
Father | Stanley Asimov |
Relatives | Isaac Asimov (uncle) |
Eric Asimov (born July 17, 1957) is an American wine and food critic for The New York Times.
Early life and education
[edit]Asimov was born in Bethpage, New York, the son of Stanley Asimov, former vice-president for editorial administration at Newsday, and Ruth Asimov, a ceramic artist. He is a nephew of author Isaac Asimov[1] and brother of San Francisco Chronicle writer Nanette Asimov.[2]
Asimov attended Wesleyan University, graduating in 1980 and did graduate work in American studies at the University of Texas at Austin.[3] Asimov married fellow Wesleyan graduate Jacalyn Lee in 1989; the couple later divorced.[when?] Asimov later married Deborah Hofmann.
Career
[edit]Having previously worked for The Chicago Sun-Times,[4] Asimov