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Passaic County Technical Institute visit

Today I was lucky enough to visit Passaic County Technical Institute in New Jersey to talk about my book to a great group of students. Such fun! We had a great, wide-ranging talk that covered topics from presidential politics to the best time of day to write to everything in between. When that was done, […]

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Falling in love again

I have made no secret lately of the fact that I’m a little crispy, just sad about a lot of things, feeling a bit done with this area. This is the case so much so that instead of feeling excited and exhilarated about the fact that it’s fall, one of my favorite reasons for living […]

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Tree-killing me

When I first moved into this house nearly sixteen years ago, I approached landscaping it with the zeal only athe new homeowner can muster. Among my more impractical purchases was one of those tiny, highly manicured junipers that look like the plant version of a poodle. It was maybe three feet tall. I had no […]

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Red meat politics

I had a house full of people here last night, so I missed the Democratic presidential debate. Feeling like a bad Democrat, I fired up YouTube on my TV this morning as the kids still slept and put it on. I didn’t want to read the pundits or watch a snippet. I wanted to sit […]

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Story teller? Check

I write stories because the Dalai Lama says I should

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Story teller? Check

I write stories because the Dalai Lama says I should

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Waiting to get chosen

This weekend I saw more than the usual number of pictures of writer friends at fabulous book festivals. I was happy for them, of course. But I caught myself feeling some agitation. What was it? At first I couldn’t figure it out. After I sat with it for a bit, I realized that one set […]

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Finally, an open carry policy I can get behind

Turns out University of Texas-Austin is planning on allowing the carrying of weapons on campus starting August, 2016. Understandably, many students are less than thrilled (thank you, Austin students, for being a bastion of sanity). In protest, they are organizing an open carry of another sort, strapping dildos to their backpacks to underscore the absolute […]

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Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day

The other day I wrote a post about the immigrant experience. As I did, I was reminded that one group’s celebration of finding success and fulfillment in what we now call the United States is another group’s reminder of the loss of life and land that this mass migration caused. I want to acknowledge that. […]

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Getting too real

I had a crazy busy weekend, so by the time Sunday night rolled around I just wanted to vegetate in front of the TV and relax. It just so happened that the first episode of The Real Housewives of New Jersey – Teresa Checks In was on, so out of habit I tuned to it. […]

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