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Thank you, BestofNJ.com

Honored to be included among such awesome company in BestofNJ.com’s 10 Summer Beach Reads from New Jersey Authors. Click here to find your next summer read.

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I could have been separated at the border – my Teen Vogue piece

I have watched the coverage of the children separated at the border from their families like many of you have: in shock, pain and disbelief. For me, the feeling has had another layer over it: dark memories. I wrote about it on Teen Vogue: click here to read the piece.

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How to help families separated at the border

My friend and fellow writer Celeste Pewter has compiled one of the most comprehensive lists on how you can help children being separated from their parents at the border. Click here to read it. And, please, share it.

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In this, sisters

I am not a purse person. I carry my wallet and my phone in the back pocket of my jeans when possible, and only begrudgingly drag around a bag when only absolutely unavoidable. Still, I too have owned a Kate Spade product. It was a gift, a little green wallet with just enough room for […]

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Well, I have lost you

An emotional weekend, which perhaps I’ll write about one day soon. When I wrote an email about my thoughts to a writer friend, she shared the following sonnet. Today, I’ll let Edna St. Vincent Millay speak for me: Well, I Have Lost You by Edna St. Vincent Millay Well, I have lost you; and I lost […]

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Bury me in Longyearbyen

I am afraid to die. To be honest, I find anyone who isn’t a little suspect. The annihilation of everything you are, snuffed for eternity? Holy smokes. If there is anything more profoundly terrifying, I cannot think of it. Oh, I know the arguments. “You won’t be around, so what does it matter?” I don’t […]

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The habit of anxiety

When I used to have to park my car in the street, I collected parking tickets by the boatload. They were cheap at the time – $15 or so, as I recall – but I’d let them fester, with notice after notice increasing the cost as I let them sit. Eventually, my license would get […]

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My parents crossed the border so I could cross the stage

You don’t know what it took to get here. You can’t know. My parents crossed the border so I could cross the stage. But you call them illegals. You sit in your comfortable chair, and judge. Why can’t they do it like our grandparents? Why can’t they learn English? Why don’t they just go back? First, […]

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Nostalgia

I’ve been swimming in the past lately. Last week was my 30th high school reunion. Last night I went out to dinner with an old high school friend who couldn’t make the reunion and who lives out of town, as well as another friend from that era whom I haven’t seen in years. I texted […]

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Things older than dirt: me

I had two teachers who changed my life: one was my high school English teacher, who had such an exuberant, quirky way of bringing literature to life (think: teaching Grendel with puppets to impenetrable high school girls until they smiled). The other was my Biology and, later, my Anatomy and Physiology teacher, Mrs. Graves. “Yes, […]

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