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January 23, 2014
The finest compliment you can give an author is to say that you had to slow down…
The finest compliment you can give an author is to say that you had to slow down at the end of a (500 page!) book, because you didn't want it to end. Such a beautiful response here from Madison about SOAT. Thank you to all of you who are putting on the brakes for the final chapters!
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It's a very sad yet exciting day! I finished The Signature of All Things and all of it's splendor. I truly could not put it down, then toward the final pages I found myself reading slower and slower because I just didn't want it to end. I finally had to have an intervention with myself. Please continue to write! I thoroughly enjoyed Alma and the many quirky characters. In your words "ONWARD!" Thank you.
P.S not such a beautiful view but it was suffice for me! 
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A beautiful use of HAPPINESS JARS…as a way to begin married life. This was so to…
A beautiful use of HAPPINESS JARS…as a way to begin married life. This was so touching to read! And congratulations, Vona, on the happy news!
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Happiness Jar my hubby &hi had our guests help us start at our upcycled/ handmade/ custom written Persian-American wedding on November 2. Each of them were invited to write a moment of happiness they felt during our wedding weekend and leave it in the jar, and now we continue to add to it… One of our happy moments was to return from our honeymoon only to find out a week later that we created a "wedding night" baby– due end of July!!
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THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS in one of my top ten favorite cities in the world…ma…
THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS in one of my top ten favorite cities in the world…marvelous Bologna, Italy! (Laura, please have a giant meal in my honor somewhere today!)
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January 22, 2014
JUST CURIOUS…How long did it take you all to learn this? With family, with partn…
JUST CURIOUS…How long did it take you all to learn this? With family, with partners, with coworkers, with perfect strangers?
Or maybe still learning?
And when did you realize that this adage also applies to yourself — to the arguments that you pick against yourself, in your own mind?
Still learning that, as well?
Yeah…me, too — but sooooo much better at this than I used to be.
Peace, y'all.
LG
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Thank you for sharing this, Ana…not sure if you’ve all seen it? I was honored to…
Thank you for sharing this, Ana…not sure if you've all seen it? I was honored to be the editor for 2013's edition of BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING. Looking for adventure? Here are a bunch of terrific stories…
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Great addition to my library!!!
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Nothing like a broken leg as a good excuse to read a long book…poor Elizabeth!
Nothing like a broken leg as a good excuse to read a long book…poor Elizabeth!
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SOAT in Kentucky with my broken leg
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January 21, 2014
BOOK CLUBS & COCKTAILS! Greetings Readers of Earth! I love this photo that…
BOOK CLUBS & COCKTAILS!
Greetings Readers of Earth!
I love this photo that my friend Anne sent to me from a book club gathering last night in Portland, Oregon. The women had not only chosen to read THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS together, but had brewed up this great green mossy SOAT cocktail that my friend Amy Stewart (author of "The Drunken Botanist") invented in honor of Alma Whittaker.
Because every novel needs its own distinctive cocktail, don't you agree?
If you guys are reading THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS for your book clubs, I thank you! That's so wonderful! But if you are hosting book club meetings about this novel without simultaneously drinking this great green mossy cocktail, then you are simply crazy.
Here's a link for how to make the cocktail, if you want to emulate those awesome literary boozers out there in Portland:
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Lovely…Sandy brought THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS and Alma with her to donate blo…
Lovely…Sandy brought THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS and Alma with her to donate blood, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.
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SOAT at City of Hope hospital. My humble two cents to be of service to others on MLK day. Dear Alma kept me company while donating blood.
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WHAT ARE YOUR TWO WORDS? A friend of this page named Patti sent me this…such…
WHAT ARE YOUR TWO WORDS?
A friend of this page named Patti sent me this…such a cool question.
I myself had three possible answers.
1) "Calm down." (This was my first thought. But I eventually rejected this one, on account of the fact that is STILL the advice I need to follow, so it doesn't have much to do with being young, specifically…)
2) "No boys." (Oh, god — what I could have done with my youth had I not gotten so entangled in so many doomed romances! The hours, the months, the YEARS that I gave away to boys! The drama! The infatuations! The tears! All those evenings spent watching "Predator" again and again! I just read a study saying that 30% of all students at Ivy League universities are virgins, and I thought: "Well, of course!" If I had stayed away from boys, and instead used all that time productively, I also could have mastered Mandarin and physics and violin by the age of 21.)
3) "Never mind." (This is what I finally settled on. Because everything I did when I was young — every mistake, every drama, every failure, every euphoric encounter, every dream, every yearning — has made me who I am today. And while I am far from perfect, I cannot help but believe that I needed become exactly this person, which is to say that I needed all those experiences, precisely the way they were. So if my younger self asked my advice, I would just say, "Never mind." Do exactly what you're doing. It all takes you where you need to be. A thought which becomes kind of reassuring, in terms of the mistakes I am probably making today…if you get my drift…)
What about you guys?
Two words to some lost version of yourself?
Go for it!
LG
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SOAT and the bluest of blue skies! So lovely…thank you, Diane!
SOAT and the bluest of blue skies! So lovely…thank you, Diane!
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Loving "The Signature of All Things"; your writing is intelligent, engaging and masterful! Thank You for being an author so we can all share in your wonderful stories and elegant writing. Reading on the balcony on vacation in West Palm Beach, FL.
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