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A celebration of life

If there is one place to feel alive in this world, it’s New Orleans. Here, because it’s too awesome to keep to myself, is a quick video I caught when I was just randomly walking on Royal Street, going into all the little shops. It wasn’t any special occasion, just New Orleans happy! Enjoy a […]

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You again

You again. When it happens, I’m reading on a plane. Maybe it’s planes. Planes are the problem. Or maybe it’s books. But, since I can’t avoid either, maybe I just learn to accept this happens to me every once in a while. and then I apply the only antidote I have: words. Writing doesn’t make […]

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When the sky looks like this

Tired, and can’t think of much to write, but wanted to leave you with this beautiful picture I took tonight. When the sky looks like this, what can be wrong in life?

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You numpty

I have long had a love affair with all things British. I got up in the wee hours to watch Princess Diana’s wedding and, decades later, her son’s. I’ve read their histories and marveled at their grand castles. I’ve loved them down to enjoying my rides on their perfect subways. I’ve gobbled up every episode […]

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How it happens

I wrote my “done” piece, all decisive, as if it’s that easy. But, later, in a city far away, on crisp hotel sheets, with the howling of memories, not the recent ones, but the older ones, it’s harder. Not any less necessary, but lonelier. I read an article the other day that for a broken […]

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The plane, the plane

I am almost sure the mechanics of breath must have come naturally to me, at some point. It feels hard to believe, now, as I force myself to suck in a breath, and then feel the process rattle to a stall… what’s supposed to happen next? A bird attempting escape flutters in my chest… what’s […]

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Get your bookmarks!

I have new bookmarks for THE SECRET SIDE OF EMPTY and I’d love to send you a signed copy. Send me an email at maria (at) mariaeandreu (dot) com with your snail mail address and I’ll put one in the mail to you asap. Spread the news to every English teacher, librarian and avid reader […]

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New pet

When a momma deer decides your yard is safe enough to leave her little one while she goes to do her momma deer work, somehow that makes life a little brighter. Open to name suggestions.

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Done

Last week, I decided I will never get married again and may, possibly, never have another significant other in my lifetime. Actually, I half realized, half decided. It was both a profound loss and a perverse kind of relief, in the way that having a loved one die after a long illness might be both […]

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I didn’t know you very long

I didn’t know you very long. But what our association lacked it length, it seemed to make up for in depth. We told each other dreams, private things, hopes for the future. I thought I had met someone special. You’d been divorced for four years, a little less than me, but enough to have gotten […]

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