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An Om of Her Own

Blogger and writer Debra Galant looks at the trials and tribulations of suburban life in her new novel, Fear and Yoga in New Jersey.

Debra Galant's blog


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[1]
Posted by: Paulo
March 31, 2008 - 10:50AM
Paterson, New Jersey

This is a New Jersey is completely unfamiliar to me... the Jersey I know is the one where the f-word isn't a word.. it's a comma.

[2]
Posted by: sheela
March 31, 2008 - 10:54AM

Maybe this is realistic but it's grossing me out. Wear black and buy an iphone. Yuk.

Yah, I'm sure everyone in Montclair is obsessed with the identity of this yoga teacher.

[3]
Posted by: Jo
March 31, 2008 - 10:54AM
Westfield NJ

I use my ipod food shopping.

[4]
Posted by: Jim
March 31, 2008 - 10:55AM
NJ

No surprise a re-plant from VIRGINIA, the non sense of place capital of the world, would think she has insight to anywhere she happens to be, even NJ

[5]
Posted by: Jimmy
March 31, 2008 - 10:55AM
Brooklyn

White glove lady indeed, you sound like a colonists...the suburbs are just a place to live, just like Manhattan, there's nothing good or bad about it.

[6]
Posted by: noelle
March 31, 2008 - 10:56AM
upper montclair

Baristanet.com is full of postings that allow people to snark at each other in anonymity and rarely allows for smart discourse, but that seems to be the nature of postings in general.

[7]
Posted by: Fred Bachmann
March 31, 2008 - 10:59AM
Bloomfield, NJ

Glen Ridge, slightly more white!

[8]
Posted by: Katie Kennedy
March 31, 2008 - 11:01AM
Huntington, NY

Brian,

You were in the wrong Long Island town. Just five minutes away on 25A (aka Northern Boulevard) is Main Street Huntington. Huntington village is full of shops, a Starbucks (of course), restaurants and pedestrians. We live in the village because we can't afford to live in "the city."

Katie

[9]
Posted by: Gene
March 31, 2008 - 11:05AM

This whole episode was just insufferable.

As a person with one foot in the city and one in suburbia, I meet officious, snobby people--or shallow people concerned with utter nonsense, as in this segment--in both places, with some regularity. I find ways to avoid them--quickly. There are too many others around who are stimulating and fun.

There are unique riches--and people--to be found in whatever place or lifestyle you are a part of.

[10]
Posted by: MMM
March 31, 2008 - 11:06AM
Plainfield

#6 has it right. These are just places to live. There is nothing to defend in either of these choices.

[11]
Posted by: Debbie Galant
March 31, 2008 - 12:39PM
glen ridge

sheesh, tough room.

[12]
Posted by: Kim
March 31, 2008 - 11:48PM

Great interview! Reminds me of this blog I came across today.

http://stuffwhiteparentslike.com

[13]
Posted by: Gene
April 01, 2008 - 03:56AM

--sheesh, tough room.

Ah well, a little humor goes a long way!

[14]
Posted by: ileen
April 01, 2008 - 03:37PM
upper west side

This book/blog sounds like a bore. For an actual funny/touching book about NJ suburban living, read The Other Shulman by Alan Zweibel.

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