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You’re about to be squeezed

For regular readers of this blog: soon it will look like my blog has disappeared. But never fear. It won’t. It will just be hiding behind what is called a “squeeze page.” You’ve probably seen squeeze pages if you’ve ever tried to look at an item at one of those “flash sale” sites that tell […]

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Losing the war

I am losing my war on Christmas. The other day, I walked into my local drugstore, fully three weeks before Thanksgiving. Someone had vomited red stockingsand cheap plastic NOEL signs all down the middle of the store, despite my years-long offensive. I have failed. It’s particularly disappointing because my war on Christmas has been strictly […]

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Playing politics

The other night, CNN aired a special about the contested 2000 election between Gore and Bush. My son, who was a zygote in my belly a few weeks old when said election took place and now stands six feet tall, asked me how a candidate could win the popular election but lose the presidency. I […]

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You will never believe that…

Saturday I chopped off all my hair. I’d been thinking about doing it for a while and this pastSaturday I did it, kind of spur of the moment. I am what is called follicularly blessed. Hair just grows out of my scalp and down my back without anyeffort. Minimum attention with a curling iron yields […]

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I read Donald Trump’s book so you don’t have to

Just kidding! You didn’t really think I’d wasted valuable time on a message I can get for free any time on any network, right? No, silly. I’m a busy girl. It’s just that I read an NPR article by the same title and thought it would be a fun joke to play on my unsuspecting […]

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‘Tis the season!

TodayI got a request for review copies of my book for a big state award. (I’m not sure of the protocol of announcing these things, so for now I shall be very vague). It means nothing except that they want to consider it, but it made me so giddy I wanted to share. It’s from […]

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State award season!

TodayI got a request for review copies of my book for a big state award. (I’m not sure of the protocol of announcing these things, so for now I shall be very vague). It means nothing except that they want to consider it, but it made me so giddy I wanted to share. It’s from […]

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Down under

Yesterday I had a wonderful first: a Skype visit with students clear across the world in Australia. How amazing! Somehow a teacher in Braddon had come across my book and thought it was an interesting glimpse into American life and assigned it to her students. Yesterday, after they all read it, I spent some time […]

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Fun times

Saturday I chopped off all my hair. I’d been thinking about doing it for a while and on Saturday I did it, kind of spur of the moment. I am what is called follicularly blessed. Hair just grows out of my scalp and down my back without anyeffort. Minimum attention with a curling iron yields […]

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New dates for 2016

I love when I tell myself I’m going to relax a bit from the book promotion… but then irresistible offers come in and I just, well, can’t resist. Yesterday I got not one but two awesome invitations to events in 2016, both in states I haven’t visited in my book-promotion travels yet. So cool! Working […]

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