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Texas Teen Author Festival schedule posted

It’s a month and a half out and the schedule for the Texas Teen Author Festival has been posted. And guess what: I’m on a panel with SoniaManzano (that’s Maria from Sesame Street to you). WHATTTT!!!! A girl crush 40 plus years in the making is going to play out right on the stagein Austin. […]

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Things that should stay private

This weekend, I couldn’t log on to my news websites without seeing the headlines blaring that the ISIS leader repeatedly raped hostage Kayla Mueller before she was killed. I didn’t know her, but I couldn’t help but wonder: what would Kayla have thought of those headlines? If she was like a great number of survivors […]

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The dorm picture

It was a simple Facebook post, the likes of which I’ve probably seen a dozen times. It had a picture of a dorm room, with a friend’s caption, “My daughter is all moved in!” I had talked to her over lunches about the mixed emotions in the lead-up to her oldest’s departure for college, so […]

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Prohibited

Best weekend ever! After a long time away (and a lot of manual labor in the past few days), I thought it was time for some adult fun this weekend. I called my in-the-know single girlfriends, who did notdisappoint. I hadn’t been bar-hopping for quite a while… until this weekend. I remember now what I […]

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Like a virgin

Hi honeybees! Sorry I abandoned you again yesterday. I was doing a thing! Not content to slack off from work for nearly two weeks in California, I took the rest of this week off to putter around the house. I had left it pretty spotless before going away (I just have to come home from […]

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Segmented

I don’t sleep through the night, usually. I wake up around 3:00 a.m., wide awake and curious, and can’t go back to sleep for an hour or so. I’ve always assumed this was due to stress, and then I’ve stressed myself some more trying to make myself sleep again. But still the pattern has continued. […]

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I’m home!

Hi lovies. I’m ba-ack! Didn’t know I was gone? That’s because I worked double-time before my whirlwind trip to California to leave a post a day scheduled. I almost made it too, except I fell a teensy bit short. So I wrote the Megyn Kelly post on my phone in the early morning hours in […]

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The easy life

My life is not something I’d normally think of as easy. It’s not hard, mind you. I’m hardly complaining. But I’ve got to juggle day job work, writing work, child rearing, a social life and being the sole adult responsible for a house. It feels complicated sometimes. I rethought this assessment toward the tail end […]

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Megyn Kelly is not a feminist

I feel bad for female Republicans. I really do. In order to fully embrace the “thought leaders” in their party (and I use the term “thought” loosely), they often have to put up with a whole lot of anti-woman rhetoric, drivel about “legitimate rape” and a woman’s body “shutting that whole thing down,” or comments […]

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Welcome Facebook fan # 2,500!

If you’ve been around a while, you probably remember me asking for help getting to 25 fans (at which point Facebook lets you create a custom URL) and then to 100 fans (just for the triple digit joy of it). I don’t watch it quite that closely anymore, but it’s still fun to hit a […]

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