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Jeanne Marie Laskas

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The United States

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http://www.jeannemarielaskas.com/

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Jeanne Marie Laskas is an American writer and professor.

From 1994 until 2008 she was a regular, syndicated columnist for The Washington Post Magazine, where her "Significant Others" essays appeared weekly. She has written feature stories for GQ, where she is a correspondent. Formerly a Contributing Editor at Esquire, her stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, including Best American Sportswriting. She also is the voice behind "Ask Laskas" in Reader's Digest and writes the "My Life as a Mom" column for Ladies' Home Journal.

A professor in the creative writing program at the University of Pittsburgh, she lives in Scenery Hill, Pennsylvania.

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Average rating: 3.92 · 741 ratings · 181 reviews · 7 distinct works

	Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm 3.94 avg rating — 436 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Exact Same Moon: Fifty Acres and a Family 3.92 avg rating — 164 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Growing Girls: The Mother of All Adventures 3.90 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Balloon Lady and Other People I Know 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:
	We Remember: Women Born at the Turn of the Century Tell the Stories of Their Lives in Words and Pictures by Jeanne Marie Laskas, Lynn Johnson (Photographer), Hillary Rodham Clinton (Introduction) 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:
	Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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“You can make your life so much larger simply be acknowledging everyone else's.”
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“Dreams are matters of the heart, things that pull you along as if they have hooked you someplace deep inside.”
― Jeanne Marie Laskas, Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm

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“Chaos, I think, is youth. Youth at any age. Because as long as you have chaos, you are free of responsibility. When you are in chaos, when you don't know what's going on, when you're an ignorant dreamer...when you're floating through space like that, you aren't supposed to get anything right, you aren't supposed to make sense, you're supposed to be...amused,,,and aware. It can't go on. Not unless you choose that life. A life of never settling down, never making a claim on who you are, who you love... Once you make those claims you become accountable. You have to get to work...Dreams end. That's one thing I'm discovering.”
― Jeanne Marie Laskas, Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm

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