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NEW EVENT! See you in Barnes and Noble

Yvonne and Alison and I are actually doing TWO Barnes and Nobles events on June 12th, not just one. Besides the one I told you about before, in Clifton, there’s another in the Woodland Park Barnes and Noble at noon. Also note that the Clifton event has been changed to 3:00 p.m. to give us […]

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You don’t have to kill fish

So it’s back on Tinder (and Bumble and Plenty of Fish and OKCupid) for another full-frontal assault on this thing called dating. The details of how I got here may beintruiging to you, no doubt, but depressingly predictable, so I will spare us both. Suffice it to say, here I am yet again. And, somehow, […]

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Courage

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.” Mary Anne Radmacher

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Love will find you

Sometimes there’s no way to get a final answer. But, still, remember: love will find you. Someday someone will make you feel so small and ignored and unheard. And yet love is still for you. There may come a time where you’ll yearn in vain to explain to ears that have ceased listening, When you’ll […]

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The unlikely pilgrimage

Not long ago, I read a book called The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. I wasn’t a huge fan, actually – the protagonist got on my nerves – but one thing about it did catch my imagination: the premise. The main character decides one day he’s going to start walking, Forrest Gump style (although, of […]

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Confessions of an email nag

Some mothers remind their kids to take a sweater or eat their vegetables. Some mothers email their kids links to articles about lack of reproductive rights for women in Central America. You can guess which kind I am. I am a voracious consumer of information. In the hour between when I drop off my kids […]

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Happy belated, Bill

Saturday I rounded up some of my favorite people and saw a performance of Romeo and Juliet in honor of my homeboy William Shakespeare’s 452nd birthday (also, coincidentally, the 400th anniversary of his death). Shakespeare proved an important milestone in my love of words. I read my first play (Romeo and Juliet, of course) six […]

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Electric word, life, it means forever

I am not one to mourn celebrity deaths. Still, Prince’s passing yesterday really affected me. It was a mix of loss of my youth, the death of someone who seemed so vital, and the mourning of dropped threads -what had he been up to lately? I felt ashamed that I didn’t even know. I also […]

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Hillary Clinton just mommed Bernie Sanders supporters

“I back young voters who don’t back me.” So said aCNN headline of a quote attributed to Hillary Clinton this morning as I ran around goading my high schoolers into getting ready for school. All I could think was, “Well-played, Hillary.” She just mom-guilted gazillions of Bernie Sanders supporters. It’s just a matter of time […]

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A spring day

Words dissolve into a well, as if they’d never been spoken. Spring touches my faceas if for the first time. Hearts go their separate ways, as if they’d never loved. The windsings a song I wish I could share with you And the sun shines a light I yearn tosee on your skin I put […]

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