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August 15, 2018
August 15, 2018
A CAUTIONARY TALE I was visiting my sister in St. Louis when her housekeeper arrived. I’d never met this girl, a friendly, 40ish white woman. (I only mention that the maid is white for the novelty of it all. I live in California.) She plunked her tackle box of cleaning supplies down on the kitchen [...]
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July 30, 2018
July 30,2018
I think I might be too busy. Oh, don’t get all judgy on me, I’m not trying to impress you. It’s not like I’m living some glamorous Kardashian-inspired (a phrase I never thought I would utter) life where the excitement is nonstop. It’s not like I need a break from invitations to yachts on the [...]
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July 22, 2018
July 22, 2018
One of the best things about writing memoirs is getting letters from people who say, “My God, your mother Pledged the paneling every week? So did mine!” Or, “Hey, I threw up on a girl’s vagina, too.” The kinship of shared experiences is a pretty powerful thing. And when readers see themselves in my books, [...]
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July 7, 2018
July 7, 2018
My sister’s son is a disease overachiever: he has severe autism and cerebral palsy and a bonus pack of other maladies that affect various cognitive and motor abilities. Brian cannot eat, go to the bathroom, or take a bath by himself. It’s like he won the Special Kid Powerball. He came to be because at [...]
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June 30, 2018
June 30, 2018
When my first book came out, People Magazine said of my mother, “Annihilating and loving by turns, she makes Sophie Portnoy look like June Cleaver.” I think I’m safe to say that this is not the kind of review most mothers stick on the refrigerator. By all rights, she should have turned to me at [...]
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June 22, 2018
June 22, 2018
I posted this photo on Facebook for Father’s Day, with a shout out to my endlessly patient Dad, who probably wanted to kill me in my sleep more than a few times. (That’s my sister with us – I’m not contemplating a team change.) The photo prompted my friend Paul to ask, “How come you’re [...]
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June 16, 2018
June 16, 2018
Recently, as my new memoir was debuting, some friends asked if there were plans for me to do a book signing at CostCo. I am not. But this raised a whole host of questions for me: Where would the table go? It seems like anywhere you put it in a CostCo, you’re just gonna end [...]
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June 10, 2018
June 10, 2018
Don’t tell my husband, but I think I’m in love with a woman. I was in New York a couple of weeks ago to see my agent, visit some bookstores, and have lunch with an author who blurbed my new book. This author, Judith Newman, is a well-known journalist – a writer for the New [...]
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June 2, 2018
June 2, 2018
I had a book reading/signing in Palm Springs last weekend. The reading portion – always my favorite part of any bookstore appearance - went very well. There were laughs and hearty applause from the 80 or so people in attendance, although they did stop short of tucking twenties into my waistband, probably assuming I’d be [...]
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