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Terminated

Last night I had the most horrifically realistic nightmare. I was walking around my neighborhood – sometimes I was me as I am now, sometimes I was a child – and I suddenly became aware of an army of Terminators trying to annihilate me. Somehow I got information that they’d invaded the Earth and were […]

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How great is this!

There are just eleven days to go for the Texas Teen Book Festival. Today I just got a copy of the poster for my panel “Free to Be Me”… note that Maria from Sesame Street (Sonia Manzano)’s book cover is just next to mine. What a cool thrill. I’m very much looking forward to this […]

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Desamparada

Writing is a struggle against silence. Carlos Fuentes It is a rare moment when words are not a sufficient container for me to pack in the things I’m feeling. Words are in my marrow. When I was little my mother kept a diary for me, writing everything I did every day. (Entries included “I had […]

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Espressed

I am something of a caffeine junkie. I always walk around fearing I’m not going to have enough energy for things, so I preemptively caffeinate. (Honestly, it’s a miracle I never became a cokehead. From the descriptions I hear, it sounds like it would have perfectly suited my need for a jolt. Thank goodness I […]

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Guess what girls!

There I was, texting with a new guy from Match. It was going so well. We’d quickly graduated from messages on the websiteto an hours-long text conversation about love, trying again, baseball, college girlfriends/boyfriends, What Went Wrong In Your Marriage (you know: obligatory middle-aged dating talk). I could tell from his pictures he was cute, […]

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A journal of this

Have you ever had something so earth-shatteringly bad happen that there was only one person you could imagine telling? One person that you know would have experience with it, the procedure and the possible consequences? One person you ache to talk to every day, but who you need in particular one day? And, then, what […]

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Confessions

When I was really mad at my husband, during the time we were basically separated but he wouldn’t leave, I would wait for him to go in the shower and then turn on the cold water in the kitchen downstairs so that he would get the rush of extra hot water. Passive aggressive, I know. […]

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Thank you, rain

As I write, a lush, late-summer rain falls quietly outside. It’s a good thing, too, because my area has seen one of the driest Augusts on record, with voluntary water restrictions announced a few weeks ago. Everything is crispy and brown. So this rain is good in two ways: it is soaking my parched garden. […]

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Wanting it all

I am not what you would call a consumer. I hate the mall. I spend next to nothing on clothes. I don’t eat out a ton or waste money on frivolous things, for the most part. I food shop with a list and don’t deviate from it. I may have a bit of a book […]

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Apparently this is a face I make

This weekend, my daughter and I went to Barnes and Noble so that I could work on my manuscripts. One is a full, completed draft and the other is the start of a different story. In solidarity, she took on the partial draft to give feedback (the kid is a born editor – all her […]

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