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Dark Places

This is a review of the movie, not the book. Alas, I have yet to read the book. Written by Gillian Flynn, the author of Gone Girl, I need to check it out, but haven’t. But the movie, peeps! So good! It was one of those quiet suggestions on Amazon Prime which I settled one […]

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My rock

Writing about my Feng Shui journey yesterday made me think of my spiritual practices today. As explained yesterday, it is a bit of a mishmosh of all the things I have found comfort in – meditation, prayer, chanting with mala beads. And then I remembered my rock. Three of four times a week, I go […]

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Questions from readers – how do you become a writer?

One of the main questions I get from teens is “How do you become a writer?” (To which I say, first and foremost, yay, writers!). My short answer, which I don’t at all mean to be flip, is that you become a writer by writing. Write a lot, write often and don’t worry all the […]

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The smash

You once gave me a bottle of champagne. Before I got my book deal, for us to enjoy together in celebration “when” I got a book deal. You were the only one who used to say “when” and not “if” back in those days. And the bottle went into the refrigerator to await the day. […]

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Keep only the things you love

I always say that Feng Shui was my “gateway drug” to spirituality. Raised Catholic but never able to connect to the traditional dogma, I decided when I was fifteen years old that I was an atheist. So my position remained until I was twenty-seven and discovered Feng Shui. Oh, sure, I started meditating when I […]

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Darkness

Recently I learned that someone I care about is having trouble with their teenage child. It’s trouble of the major variety, requiring professional intervention. My heart aches for them. I’ve been embarrassingly blessed (so far) in the teenage child department, although I’m scared to jinx it by saying so. I’d like to take credit for […]

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Is the internet killing this?

I, collector of wooden spoons and cheese boards and throws, am not exactly what you’d call “anti-consumerist.” I consume with the best of them, allowing myself a vague uneasiness about the niggling thought that there must be a better way, without ever really giving myself over to investigating what that might be. Still, I really […]

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Best Thanksgiving ever!

I make no secret of the fact that I love Thanksgiving. It’s one of the reasons I dislike “Christmas creep”… I want to give Thanksgiving its due. I love that it’s a uniquely American holiday and that its sole purpose is the mark our blessings. Plus, I host it, which I really enjoy. I am […]

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Snapshot

For years I wished for just one snapshot of us together, your arms around me, or maybe you kissing my cheek Just one. Even after years of loving you and being good to you I wasn’t worth that, I guess. The other night, someone I’ve known for the blink of an eye asked a waiter […]

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Drowning

I’m drowning. The water comes up fast, and I know I can’t hold on. Drowning. Then… I can only describe him as an apparition – an angel – a man I’d never seen before and would never see again floats over to me. “Relax. You can float.” I stop my flailing. Breathe through the feeling […]

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