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Rainy days

Rain is the wish for warm skin against mine the thought of the drain outside my basement which capriciously backs rainwater into my home some rainy days yes, some rainy days no. Rain is the empty sandbags in my kitchen which I hope to fill to keep it out, hurricane images keeping me up at […]

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The morning-room

I follow a bunch of Instagram accounts for real estate and decor. This morning, one of them posted a listing that absolutely melted my heart. It caught my eye because the house was beautiful, and for sale, but mostly because it was the home of an author, and not far from my house. It was […]

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Star Spangled

The man, thirty-three years old, was living in perilous times. There was a war going on. Just the month before, the enemy had burned down several of his young country’s most symbolic buildings. Now, they were taking aim at his city. One of his friends was taken prisoner by the enemy. The man, lawyer, patriot, […]

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I’d love to see you tonight

NYC-area readers, come out to Strand Bookstore tonight for a panel on what it takes to get published. Led by the inimitable Susan Shapiro, who taught me what it would take to (finally!) publish my first piece in Newsweek, it will be chock full of practical information you can put to use immediately in pursuit […]

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Intensity

I have had what most people would consider an intense life. I didn’t know it for a long time. For much of my youth, I often thought about how boring my life was, how I should jetset more, have more love affairs, do more extreme sports. And, truth be told, I haven’t done much traveling, […]

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Keep on going

Late last winter, I received a certified letter. It was notice of an application for a variance on a property within 250 feet from my home. I live on a hill, on a quiet little dead end with a smattering of woods at the top. I moved to the house with my daughter in my […]

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A New Zarya

Naming children proved to be something of a challenge for me and my ex-husband. Even at the pinnacle of our relationship, compromise was hard. He wanted Greek and traditional. I wanted original and bold, the kind of name that would look good above a marquee, or that would be memorable on a campaign poster. Eventually, […]

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The perfect party

These are dark, dark days in our democracy. An infantile madman’s finger is twitching by the pardon pen to wipe away the rightful consequences of his crony’s actions. The same lunatic (and, oh, by the way, most powerful man in the world) has also just been named as an unindicted co-conspirator in a federal crime. […]

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Midday at RVN TV

It was great to be invited for an interview at RVN TV to talk about the upcoming Collingswood Book Festival, where I’ll be appearing, along with a ton of awesome authors. I come in at the 16:20 mark, but the whole thing is worth watching so you can learn about one of the best literary […]

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My body, myself

In the early 90s, I belonged to one of those book clubs that shipped you books every month if you didn’t tell them not to. Their business model depended on people like me, lazy people who forgot to send the “no thanks” postcard back in time. So, one month, due to my inaction, a book […]

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