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ARCS! It's a book! Well, it's ALMOST a book!

Advance Review Copies of The Edge of Maybe have just arrived!  I'm ridiculously gleeful.  First, the champagne.  Then, the promo machine gets to march into action, sending them out to movers and shakers and reviewers and other important peeps.
It's a very exciting moment, seeing the book as a book (even if the cover isn't exactly [...]

Brain Fog and the Slow Clearing Thereof

It's a medical term, "brain fog," and it's a symptom of thyroid disease.
This past Spring, in the throes of hyperthyroidism (caused by the horrifically named Graves Disease), I was aware that I was brain foggy, but too foggy to know how foggy I was.
A few examples: I often do Sudoku puzzles, and I'm pretty good [...]

Postmortems, Premortems, and Parties

What's YOUR idea of the Afterlife? Mine is a big party where we get to talk and talk all night….
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Well, THAT was interesting!

This week AOL's ParentDish featured my opinion piece on my daughter's dropping out of high school. (Technically she didn't drop out, she took the California High School Proficiency Exam — but since some people consider her a drop out, I used the term).
And the comments came flooding in. Over 500 of them. And [...]

Under the Ash Cloud

I have a new column up at Literary Mama…
"Traveling alone for the first time since Bill died, I arrive in Budapest, Hungary to teach a one-week seminar at the technical university. I'd planned to fly to Paris after the seminar, and then, four days later, home. But the day after my arrival [...]

Paris, George Clooney… Who needs you, anyway?

Paris is everybody's favorite city, except mine. I hate it. Yes, I know, it's amazing. I've been sporadically visiting Paris for 30 years and I know all about its glories: the food, the streets, the Seine, the wine, the fashion, the museums and monuments.  I agree completely — amazing. And hating the City of Light [...]

Hey there. I'm headed this week to my first ever writer's...

Hey there. I'm headed this week to my first ever writer's conference — AWP in Denver. Thousands of writers and publishing professionals in one conference center. That's thousands of traditionally solitary people spending days in crowded conference rooms, being social. Networking. Oh god. No wonder there's already so much chatter about where [...]

Solo Means You're the Star

Hoorah!
I'm back at Literary Mama with a new column called Solo, about my life as a solo mother after an unexpected tragedy, about my impending solo life as my 17-year-old prepares to leave the nest, and about my evolution into a solo performance artist. My first column is called, "Solo Means You're the Star."
You never [...]

Performance Schedule!

I'm workshopping pieces of "A Widow's To-Do List" around town a lot in the next couple of months. These are all great shows, interesting line-ups, CHEAP, and a great way to see indie theater.
Come see!  I usually have access to discount tickets… so email me.
When she got married, Ericka didn't want to say the "until [...]

Item Number 22: A Widow's To-Do List, 3 Sundays in March!

(Okayfine, I'll announce it!)
I'll be presenting an all-new (hence my reluctance to post this) excerpt from my solo show "A Widow's To-Do List" the first three Sundays in March!
THIS Sunday, March 7, is the Academy Awards. You don't want to miss those (and I need more time before you come to the show anyway) but [...]