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May 12, 1958

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The first review of the paperback edition of Between a Rock and a Hot Place is in! Read it here: http://www.seasidebooknook.com/2012/0...

Tracey Jackson is a screenwriter and author who has written over fifteen feature films and fourteen television pilots--including The Other End of the Line, The Guru and Confessions of a Shopaholic--and her first book, Between a Rock and a Hot Place.

Her recent documentary, Lucky Ducks, nominated for Best Documentary at the MIAAC Film Festival in 2009, explores issues of parenting and adolescence, following Tracey and her teenage daughter from Park Avenue to Mumbai as they attempt to unravel the complex relationship boomer parents have with their over-indulged teens. Since the film's release, Jackson has bee...more The first review of the paperback edition of Between a Rock and a Hot Place is in! Read it here: http://www.seasidebooknook.com/2012/0...

Tracey Jackson is a screenwriter and author who has written over fifteen feature films and fourteen television pilots--including The Other End of the Line, The Guru and Confessions of a Shopaholic--and her first book, Between a Rock and a Hot Place.

Her recent documentary, Lucky Ducks, nominated for Best Documentary at the MIAAC Film Festival in 2009, explores issues of parenting and adolescence, following Tracey and her teenage daughter from Park Avenue to Mumbai as they attempt to unravel the complex relationship boomer parents have with their over-indulged teens. Since the film's release, Jackson has been a featured guest on many parenting shows and websites, including MomLogic.com, Mary Talks Money with Mary Caraccioli, and ABC News with Annie Pleshette Murphy.

With the same candidness used to attack parenting in Lucky Ducks, Jackson now takes on aging with her first book, Between a Rock and a Hot Place. By telling themselves fifty is the new thirty, boomers have convinced each other they are getting younger--a myth which Jackson's new book seeks to debunk: "the truth is fifty ain't thirty no matter how you cook the books. It's fifty and it arrives with more baggage than Paris Hilton on a press tour."

While investigating her own life, Jackson, in Between a Rock and a Hot Place, takes us through the many twists and turns on the roller coaster of aging. She is not afraid to tackle the topics of sex, ageism in the workplace, death, health, empty nest, and everything else the years may bring. She makes us laugh hard and think hard as well, and offers ways to lighten the speed bumps along the way. "No one gives women a game plan for a hearty last thirty years," but with Between a Rock and a Hot Place, someone finally does.

Tracey is an avid blogger, whose blog Tracey Talks can be read on her website, TraceyJacksonOnline. She also contributes as a guest blogger to The Huffington Post, The Partnership for a Drug Free America's Decoder blog, and TinyBuddha.com.(less)

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REED KRAKOFF: EDITED, INDUSTRIAL ELEGANCE

It’s not a secret that I love fashion. I adore designers and I’m interested in what makes them tick. I was fortunate to get to sit down with Reed Krakoff who is in, “a truly Americandesigner”

Two years ago after tenure of taking Coach from an anemic once successful brand to a fashion mainstay, he started his own line, ReedKrakoff.

One of the things I find amazing about Reed is that he is a relati...

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Facing the Night: A Diary (1999-2005) and Musical Writings

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Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things

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Tracey Jackson made a comment on her review of Hamlet's BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age "Love this book. So important and informative. Makes you stop, take a look at your life and relationship to technology and hopefully make some changes. "
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Tracey Jackson gave to: Hamlet's BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age by William Powers read in May, 2012	My rating:
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Tracey Jackson marked as to-read: Schmidt Steps Back by Louis Begley	My rating:
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Tracey Jackson gave to: Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt read in April, 2012	My rating:
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Tracey Jackson gave to: Ali in Wonderland: And Other Tall Tales by Ali Wentworth read in April, 2012	My rating:
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Tracey Jackson gave to: Devotion: A Memoir by Dani Shapiro read in March, 2012	My rating:
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Tracey Jackson is currently reading: Facing the Night: A Diary (1999-2005) and Musical Writings by Ned Rorem	My rating:
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Tracey Jackson marked as to-read: Eccentric Glamour: Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You by Simon Doonan	My rating:
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Tracey Jackson marked as to-read: Nasty: My Family and Other Glamorous Varmints by Simon Doonan	My rating:
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Quotes by Tracey Jackson

“...if we run toward our fears, they lose their power and ultimately disappear"

"I think this is one of the giant lessons in adapting to age without losing your mind: we must let go of what was and begin accepting what is"

"'fate loves the fearless.' There is no better time to be fearless than in your fifties; if you really put your mind and your energy into it, you can make amazing things happen.”
― Tracey Jackson, Between a Rock and a Hot Place: Why Fifty Is Not the New Thirty

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