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Paul Greenberg is the author of the James Beard award-winning bestseller Four Fish and the post Soviet love story Leaving Katya. More of Paul Greenberg's writing can be found at www.fourfish.org

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I'm Not Your Psychiatrist -- I'm Your Life Coach!

(0) Comments | Posted May 15, 2012 | 7:19 PM

I think it's time we discussed your therapy. I am enclosing here the bill for your 158 missed sessions but that's not what's really important. I sense a disenchantment with me in particular and with psychotherapy in general. This despite the fact that we have made tremendous strides over the...

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GOP Yoga Poses of Strong Resolve

(0) Comments | Posted February 27, 2012 | 4:20 PM

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1. Suck it Salutation, or "The Bird": With legs shoulder-width apart and arms extended, slowly curl in all fingers except for the middle-most digits on each hand. Extend the middle fingers to their maximum length and throw back the head in brave defiance of...

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The Holidays Are Over, And Now to Everest (By Cross Trainer)!

(1) Comments | Posted December 30, 2011 | 4:11 AM

Jan. 2: The indulgences of the winter feasts are at an end, and I have arrived at Everest Base Camp along with my Life Fitness Elliptical Cross Trainer.

My Sherpa guide, Dorjee, joined by his extended clan, gaze in wonder as I mount the apparatus and bring the instrument...

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Fatty Acid Underpants

(0) Comments | Posted December 20, 2011 | 5:44 AM

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A rejected New York Times editorial. Photo credit: Elisha Cooper

"Are there fish in my child's onesie?"

As someone who catches and eats literally thousands of fish every year and on occasion writes in the New York Times about all the...

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Tips for Tougher Times

(2) Comments | Posted December 6, 2011 | 9:51 PM

It's me again, back with more end-of-the-year common sense saving tips for these uncommon economic times. Last year I gave you ten tips to help you pull yourself up by your own suspenders. But since things have gotten much worse and you've already sold those suspenders, I've got a bunch...

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Leo Tolstoy Is Quitting Facebook

(9) Comments | Posted November 29, 2011 | 10:21 AM

On the 101st anniversary of his death, a look back through Count Leo Tolstoy's epic Facebook posts dating from his joining the social network in 1847 to his departure from Facebook at the Astapovo railway station in November 1911.

Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy joined Facebook.

Ivan Turgenev added...

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A Strategic Seafood Reserve?

(2) Comments | Posted March 31, 2011 | 1:28 PM

On March 29th the Trout Unlimited team and I met with leaders in the Obama administration and members of Congress to talk about Bristol Bay, its central importance to American fisheries and the dire threat those fisheries face from the proposed Pebble Mine project, which could potentially wreak havoc on...

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Remembrances of Fish Lost

(6) Comments | Posted March 30, 2011 | 4:35 PM

As I look out across the wide landscape of fisheries, I am blown away by what seems to be our consistent desire to destroy the fish that we love most: Salmon. This is very much on my mind as I head to Washington, D.C., for a series of events planned...

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