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Forever turned out to be too long

Yesterday, I found myself recounting the plot of Legends of the Fall to my boyfriend in exacting detail. For the uninitiated, Legends of the Fall is a Brad Pitt movie from the early 90s (based on a novella which, I’m sorry to say, I’ve never read and – bad novelist – don’t feel a need […]

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Thank you, Cherry Hill West

One of my favorite parts of doing what I do is meeting the next generation of leaders, thinkers, writers, and doers. School visits help remind me of the great pool of talent, hope and inspiration in our young people. It was my honor to present at Cherry Hill West, a great school with big heart. […]

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Gone with the rain

Monday, it poured. The rain came in sideways and chilly. It was relentless, the kind of rain that makes you understand why in biblical times they thought it might be divine retribution. It ran in rivulets down my hill. It flooded my basement. My history of basement floods is complicated. This isn’t even the first […]

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Taking to the road

This past weekend, my daughter and I took a lo-ong road trip. She’s been accepted into four of her top-choice colleges, and now decision-making time begins. So we chose to visit two of them in one three-day stretch, each several hundreds of miles from home and nearly four hundred miles from each other. It was […]

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The Deepest Well

The other day, in the airport, I took an excursion to the bookstore. Airport bookstores are some of my favorite places – something about the careful curation of the offerings – and I try and make it my business to hit one in every airport I visit. Unsurprisingly, two books caught my eye. One was […]

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A girl called Marvelous

On Saturday, I told myself I was due for a news fast. Wave after crashing wave of bad news has been leaving me drained, and I wanted a clear head and a fun weekend. With a bit of downtime but my go-to, CNN, off limits, I nosed around for something else to watch. I came […]

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Questions of power

This past week I got some disappointing feedback on my latest manuscript from an industry professional. (The feedback was, basically: do better). I ran through the usual gamut of emotions… shock like a blow to the place where my rib cage meets my soft part, a sinking hopelessness, fear like standing at the foot of […]

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Purely fun

The super cool author Jennifer Lynn Gillham was going on a trip… and offered to take THE SECRET SIDE OF EMPTY with her. (It wasn’t just SECRET SIDE. Follow her on Instagram to see the whole bunch). She was generous enough to snap a picture of the cover in front of some cool places. SECRET SIDE, […]

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Books I ache to read

Here’s how I soothe myself when I am horrified by the massive derailment of our democracy that is currently underway. I tell myself, “This too shall pass.” Then I tell myself, “The books exposing this madness are going to keep coming FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE.” A list of my fantasy line-up of Trump […]

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#TwitterLockOut, the mess we’re in, and compassion

I am about as rabidly anti-Trump as I believe you can get. I fear our country is in a dark time, and many of the tools intended to protect us – a free media, the rule of law, courts, an independent judiciary – are being undermined by the very guy who should be upholding them […]

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