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Toinette Lippe

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I worked in book publishing for 50 years, as reprint rights director and senior editor at Alfred A. Knopf, and editorial director of Bell Tower. Tarcher published NOTHING LEFT OVER in 2002 and CAUGHT IN THE ACT in 2004, and Monkfish released ebook and new paperback editions of both books in 2004, with my paintings on the covers and frontispieces. I teach brush painting in NYC. You can read my blog here: http://ofnotebytoinette.wordpress.com/ ...more

Telling It Like It Is

Straight talk is vital when it comes to children. I learned this lesson long ago when I was taking care of a teenager for three years. I had warned her that if she misbehaved in a certain way again (I can’t any longer recall the circumstances), I would put her across my knee and spank her. When I said that, it was just a threat, and I thought it would be enough to deter her, particularly since she

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Published on October 16, 2014 04:36
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“Once we are born, only two things are certain. One is that we will die and the other that we will experience change.”
Toinette Lippe, Nothing Left Over: A Plain and Simple Life

“One of the characteristics of the mind is that it is always expecting something, chasing after something it wants or retreating from or resisting something is doesn’t want.”
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“Another way of allowing more freedom into the mind is not holding fixed ideas about people and things.”
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