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Nutley Library Day

Mark your calendars! Nutley Library Day is Saturday, November 14th, 2015 from 9:00 a.m. to 11 p.m. at Barnes and Noble, Clifton Commons, 385 Route 3 East, Clifton, New Jersey. I will be doing a one-hour presentation and signing at 4:00 p.m. Be there or be square! (or, you know, not in the area. Then […]

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Scent memories

I am miles from home Surrounded by sunsets and ease And happiness. Also, it is different this time I am done for good Being sidelined and overlooked by you. ThereforeI don’t yearn like I used to. I get down to the gritty work of letting go. That’s whyit felt particularly cruel That a smell could […]

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Writers: 10 things you can do to be happier right now

Writing is a funny business. On the one hand, to be a writer you have to be attuned to detail and emotion, which generally makes you a sensitive soul. On the other hand, publishing, the murky waters in which we must swim to achieve “success” as a writer, can be rough and choppy. The path […]

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The wait

Here’s something for the “creepy” file: when you search for local businesses, Google will soon start showing you a graph of the busiest and least busy times to visit. Want to go to the local hardware store? Google will tell you their rush is Saturday’s at 11:00, so you can get up early and buy […]

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The vocal fry

It has a name! Not only a name, but a whole controversy! I am not the only one to notice it and be driven mad by it. The vocal fry. I blame Paris Hilton for it. She’s the first time I remember hearing it, that bored, drawn out growlish thing at the end of sentences. […]

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What nation do you live in?

If you’re like most of my readers, you think you live in the United States (if you’re one of my international readers, so glad you’re here! Read on to find out about our American idiosyncracies). But if you think you live in the United States, think again, according to Colin Woodward in his book, American […]

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The trouble with internet outrage

You’ve probably read stories about the copious amounts of abuse piled on Walter Palmer, the Minnesota dentist who admitted to killing famed lion Cecil on a hunting trip to Zimbabwe. You probably didn’t hear of the kerfuffle in a private Facebook group strictly for female writers of young adult literature, to which I belong to […]

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Once in a blue moon

Hello, sugar plums! It’s no secret that I am a moony, hopeful romantic. They say that lovers and dreamers have stared at the full moon since time immemorial, projectingtheir hopes and their wishes on it, willing its rays to light the path to their dearest dreams. So I’m in good company. I try to make […]

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Site outtages

Here’s a confession: part of my morning “to-do list”involves checking this site. It’s an old online marketer’s routine, making sure that yoursitesurvived the night. This morning, when I checked the site, it was down. {Heart attack/hyperventilation}. I called my hosting company, who gave me some mumbo jumbo about data centers and bridges and told me […]

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Cecil

In my twenties and thirties, I was all about righteous rage. I railed at the injustices I saw, furious at the humans who perpetrated them. In my forties, I’m trying to be more understanding. Not always succeeding, but trying. What makes people do the incomprehensible things they do? Usually I can find a sliver of […]

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