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On a Buzzfeed list

There have been many small joys in the year since my book was published. There have been reviews – mostly kind – media attention, invitation to prestigious book festivals. Today, I got one of the ones I’ve enjoyed most: I discovered THE SECRET SIDE OF EMPTY was included in a Buzzfeed list of 17 Books […]

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Here’s how you know you’re a book nerd

There is an ad popping up all over my Facebook profile. Every time I’m on, there it is. It’s for something called Help Scout, which, I guess, scouts out help for you? (The details are fuzzy). Anyway, the first time I saw it, here’s where my head went: I thought it was a campaign to […]

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5 things women couldn’t do in the 1950s

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 (obligatory middle-aged dating talk). I could tell from his pictures he was cute, totally my […]

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Read

Don’t be afraid of the lost page Or the skipped paragraph Or the ending that breaks your heart Just read Don’t pick the safe stuff The book on the lists – not just that one, anyway – But the one that promises to tell you a secret your heart thrills to recognize. Read And don’t […]

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5 must-have items for the writer who travels frequently

I have done a bajillion appearances for my book since it came out (yes, bajillion. It’s a thing). I have spent more time in airports and planes in the last eighteen months than in all the other years of my life combined. As a homebody who appreciates creaturecomforts, (and who knows that the muse visits […]

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October 19, 2006

I have every diary I’ve ever written since I was twelve years old. Today, looking for a missing cheese knife for a party I’m hosting, of all things, I found one from 2006, separate from the rest of the stash. It was from a period when my marriage was starting to unravel for real. (I […]

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The voice in your head

The other day, I asked my daughter to clean up her room. She did, then came out and said, “You know what I need? Some bins for inside that trunk in my room.” “Good idea,” I replied. “As I was cleaning, all I kept hearing was your voice in my head saying, ‘Messes only happen […]

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Hipocrisy

You know how marriage is between one man and one woman? And how sometimes it’s between that same woman and a different man? And, then, how it can be between yet again that woman and a third man? And then by that woman and the second man again? And how sometimes, amidst all this, that […]

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(PHOTO) NYC Teen Author Night

Have you ever just wanted to hug a room full of people all at once? That’s how I felt at the New York City Teen Author Night last night at the Jefferson Market branch of the New York Public Library. We played to a packed crowd full of awesome people who asked great questions and […]

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On the first day of high school

I didn’t intend to write about my children today. Just yesterday I thought, “I only write about parenting, writing and, occasionally, when I can’t sleep, The Man Situation. I should write about something else.” So I made a conscious decision to write about my car. Plus I’d already written my one post for today. But […]

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