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Giving credit where credit is due

I spend a whole lot of time beating myself up about how little I write. I can pull off a thousand words in less than an hour, but I don’t do that every day. Oh, and the things I write here, on this blog, don’t “count” toward word count. So I am always in the […]

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A reminder

I’ll be reading at the Jefferson Market branch of the New York Public Library tomorrow. It starts at 6:00 p.m., but in order to avoid rush hour, I will be working out of the library the whole afternoon, aiming to arrive just afterlunch time. If you have a book you want signed and you want […]

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The history of cars

I am a woman who doesn’t care one bit about the state of my vehicle. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I want it to work. But if I have to hold it together with duct tape, I am thoroughly unfazed by that. Cars to me are functional and not at all interesting in any […]

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Panic

There’s no sugar coating it: I am, by nature, an anxious person. My anxiety is slow and simmering. I don’t have “big events,” like panic attacks. I just walk through life with a low-level certainty that something dreadful is about to happen. Normally it doesn’t and I’ve wasted all that energy being nervous. Sometimes it […]

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Stepping back on the merry-go-round

Regular readers will be familiar with the fact that I have a tortured relationship with dating. I very much want to meet The One, but I am not at all a fan of what you have to do to get there. I vacillate between boredom to downright dread when contemplating stepping back on the dating […]

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Why blog

Yesterday, I posted what can only be described as a gibberish post. I was exhausted, it was a crazy day and it had been weighing on me that I hadn’t gotten to the blog. So, when I finally logged on, I gave all I had to give, which wasn’t a lot. But it was something. […]

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Stepping back on the merry-go-round

Regular readers will be familiar with the fact that I have a tortured relationship with dating. I very much want to meet The One, but getting there is a bit of a pain. I vacillate between boredom to downright dread when contemplating stepping back on the dating merry-go-round. But since there’s no other way to […]

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Status

Dear blog: Can’t pull off a full post today. Just can’t. Day is almost over and I haven’t gotten to you. So here’s a word association status update. (Imagine my Facebook feed meeting my subconscious). Blog, that’s going to have to do for today. Espresso is so gross so why am I drinking it anyway? […]

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The Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing

It was great to come across this article on Bustle about the Restless Books Prize. Submissions are open this coming September through December for previously unpublished first-generation Americans. So… not me (since I’m already published). However, Bustle wrote a great piece about books that could have won… and guess who’s on it! Click here. See […]

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See you in New York City next week!

Guess what! I just found out I will be doing a reading at the Teen Author Reading night at the Jefferson Market branch of the New York Public Library next Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. Please be there! Besides hearing me read, you’ll also get a chance to meet and hear the inimitable, best-selling David Levithan […]

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