Editor’s Note: The following comments have been edited for length.

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Comment to the Question of the Day on March 26
By Elizabeth Bennett on 03/26/2009 1:38 am

I once spent an entire afternoon at Musee D’Orsay watching the light dance across one of Claude Monet’s paintings. I really do love his work, but it does not translate into posters at all, despite the perseverance of the poster industry. I also find Salvador Dali fascinating; though I am not sure I would want one of his paintings in my bedroom. Some of Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings are astonishing, though I find I am not nearly as drawn to the Mona Lisa as I am to other paintings of his. I do not think I have a favorite artist. There are so many amazing artists, alive and dead, and many of the best are those anonymous ones that just make you awestruck. Who built the pyramids?

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Comment to a Photo Essay on March 25
By nanchan u on 03/25/2009 2:51 pm

I"ll be interested in seeing what the other wowOwowers come up with, but two programs that immediately come to mind for me are Roseanne and The Golden Girls.

Roseanne broke ground not only in television but I would argue in American society by breaking wide open the doors of The Perfect House and for showing us that yes, other people’s houses and families are pretty much like ours. And The Golden Girls! Four Grande dames of television epitomizing growing better as we add the digits to our ages is the way to go….

I’m sure there are others…. wowers?

***Note to nanchan u: Many wowOwowers also mentioned "The Golden Girls" as a groundbreaking show.

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Comment to the Poll on March 25
By phyllis Doyle Pepe on 03/25/2009 9:53 am

Many books are written to make people read. The best are written to force them to think. Many times book club selections are like sweet confections that satisfy for the moment. They don’t stick to the ribs nor do they qualify as well written works of literature. However–––people read for all sorts of different reasons and better to have them read something than nothing. Joan’s mention of "Loving Frank" is an example of one of those gems that one finds among the shells. Washington C. above sounds like a serious reader who would probably choke on the brownie served at some of these book club discussions because as she says she is a different kind of reader. When one’s passion is literature in all its forms, it suffices to engage in interior monologues.

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Comment to a Conversation on March 25
By Paula Forman on 03/25/2009 5:24 pm

Retirement is a really crummy word: it just says NOT. No wonder it scares a lot of us off it.

I have retired several times and look forward to doing it again some time. I have been a big deal executive, a college professor and a writer… each time I retired, I took a long deep breath, and something very interesting presented itself. For me, doing the same thing for all the stages of my life would have been an enormous failure of imagination.

The hardest thing about every retirement was saying it.

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Comment to a Post by Candice Bergen on March 22
By kathy kaehler on 03/22/2009 3:09 pm

Well said. Life is a gift, that each day we get to open. It is just a shame that it takes a terrible loss for us to take a moment and realize how special this gift is. Unfortunately it can be ripped from us at any given moment. Take a deep breath today, look around you and take it ALL in.