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farewell, beloved scent

Posted on March 28, 2022 by girasoleazzurra

Comme des Garçons was (and is) a perfume that introduced in 1994, a year when I was the editor-in-chief of a small professional magazine, a shopper of some repute, and at what turned out to be the height of my … Continue reading →

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Ten things you need to know about online classes, with a little help from the yellow submarine

Posted on August 19, 2021 by girasoleazzurra

(by GraceAnne A. DeCandido, for my graduate classes at Rutgers 8/2009) 1.The Long and Winding Road: Taking a class online is more work than an in-person class. You have to read more and faster, interact with your classmates more, log … Continue reading →

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Zucchini blossoms/Pumpkin flowers

Posted on August 8, 2020 by girasoleazzurra

Zucchini blossoms / pumpkin flowers, first published in 2015 or so. When I was a child, these were an extraordinary summer treat, almost magical, because no one I knew except our relatives ever made them. I made them today, and … Continue reading →

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Music from many places

Posted on February 16, 2019 by girasoleazzurra

All you need is LOVE written June 2007 One of the reasons I chose Las Vegas for my sixtieth birthday celebration was for the Beatles LOVE Cirque du Soleil show. I was at Shea Stadium for the Beatles. Hearing “Hey … Continue reading →

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Reading, How to

Posted on April 24, 2018 by girasoleazzurra

After food, and sex, and occasionally, sleep, the deepest and most sustaining pleasure of my life has been reading, reading stories. For the past few years, since chemotherapy and radiation treatment for Stage 3 endometrial cancer, I have read very … Continue reading →

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Hair story the last, probably

Posted on July 19, 2017 by girasoleazzurra

Since I was 14 years old, I had long hair, often nearly to my waist. I loved it. I was vain about it. It was lush and wavy and deep chestnut brown. I thought it was my best feature. In … Continue reading →

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a joy from Twitter

Posted on April 14, 2017 by girasoleazzurra

“One of the great joys of being a librarian is that it is one of the last refuges of the renaissance person…” #NLW17 @GirasoleAzzurra pic.twitter.com/fVZ0kaOc6V — ProQuest (@ProQuest) April 14, 2017 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

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Georgia O’Keeffe

Posted on April 10, 2017 by girasoleazzurra

07 September 2013 @ 10:42 am Georgia O’Keeffe We took two days to go upstate, to see a collection of 32 paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe in a small museum in Glens Falls, NY. The family of Alfred Steiglitz, whom O’Keeffe … Continue reading →

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The words are moving

Posted on April 5, 2017 by girasoleazzurra

I will be moving much of the commentary and musings I wrote in Live Journal to this site. Thank you for following along.

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Biography

Posted on February 21, 2016 by girasoleazzurra

GraceAnne Andreassi DeCandido GraceAnne A. DeCandido is a writer, reviewer, and editor, now mostly retired. She taught children’s and young adult literature classes for Rutgers SC&I online for over a decade, as well as two specialized classes Female Voices in … Continue reading →

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