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October 11, 2015
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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October 9, 2015
The Immigrant Experience
I am one of the 41 million Americans in the U.S. today (out of roughly 319 million, or about 13 percent) who were born outside of the United States. One of the great themes of my life was been a deep love of this country, a strong yearning to be rooted here down the generations. […]
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October 7, 2015
The day has finally arrived
My book is on that most American of all websites: Walmart. (Thank you, Google Alerts, for tipping me off). That’s right, peeps. You can buy my book at Walmart.I have arrived.(Walmart dot com, but apparently not the stores, which is too bad, because I hear they buy gazillions at a time. But, hey, baby steps). […]
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October 6, 2015
The Leftovers
I don’t normally have such a visceral reaction to a single episode of a television series that I vow to never watch it again. But it happened on Sunday. Last year, I watched Season 1 of The Leftovers avidly. Sure, it was weird and dark and sometimes inscrutable. But something told me to trust it, […]
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October 5, 2015
Dear educational system
It was in kindergarten when my children first came home with the tales of active shooter drills. They didn’t call them that, of course. They’d say things like, “Today the teacher taught us to sit very quietly in a place where we couldn’t be seen by someone looking in through the window.” I was horrified […]
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October 2, 2015
Friday Fun Days: Joaquin Edition
As I write, most of my neighbors are running around with their hair on fire about The Big Hurricane that’s on its way. Ina community still suffering from Sandy PTSD, any suggestion of a replay gets people understandably nervous (I personally nearly lost my marbles during the nine days I was without power after Sandy, […]
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September 29, 2015
YA Scavenger Hunt
Welcome to YA Scavenger Hunt! This bi-annual event is away to give readers a chance to gain access to exclusive bonus material from their favorite authors…and a chance to win some awesome prizes! Not only that… on this postyou get a clue for the hunt. Add up the clues, and you can enter for our […]
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Wichita Library’s Big Read chooses TSSoE as one of their titles
Today I was honored and delighted to learn that THE SECRET SIDE OF EMPTY has been chosen as one of Wichita Public Library’s Companion Titles for Young Readers for their Big Read, which is going on from October 1st through November 15th. Their theme is that of immigration and culture and they’ve got a full […]
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September 28, 2015
Back in the day when I wanted to be both of the people in this picture
When I was sixteen, I was all about the movie stars of the 1950s. Not all of them, just the tragic ones. (Although, given enough time, most actors’ lives can take on a patina of tragedy, if only through physical decline we all face, which seems so very tragic at sixteen). Really my main fascination […]
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YA Scavenger Hunt
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