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Color me rad-ically unprepared

This coming Sunday, I’m doing a color run. For the record, I hate exercising. I do it, because I don’t want to be a sloppy blob, but I am eternally in search of the exercise that doesn’t bore me to pieces. And so, about two or three times a year, I sign up for some […]

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10% Happier

I’ve been meditating since I was 18 years old. I’ve been a student of the positive psychology movement since it first started making news with books by Martin Seligman and his colleagues and students. I’ve listened to tapes and attended retreats. You’d figure that with all of this experience in the “woo woo” field, I […]

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The greatest city in the world

When I was a kid, my dad used to listen to a radio station that told the time this way, “In the greatest city in the world, it’s 3:00 o’clock.” Since I was small, New York’s supremacy as the greatest city in the world was never stated as opinion, impossible to prove or quantify, but […]

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My five favorite things about Seattle

I love going to new places. I love the unique local flavor of regions, and discovering the little details you can never get from seeing them on TV. I love how city streets feel different everywhere and vegetation is specific to places. I love new smells and views of new bodies of water. I love […]

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I miss you

I love traveling for business. I love everything about it – crisp, white hotel sheets, the little shampoos, learning to navigate new streets, discovering new restaurants. Each trip makes me feel special and important, even though I know those are just stories I tell myself. They also make me feel resourceful. Yesterday, for example, when […]

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Featured in The Record

Here’s an article about diversity in young adult literature in today’s copy of The Record, a New Jersey newspaper. (With some scintillating quotes from moi!). Read the story online: click here.

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The little cold rock with heart

Call me sentimental, but I’ve always had a thing for Pluto. First of all, it’s out there, way far from our sun, doing its faithful loop in the shivery, outermost reaches of our solar system. Love (in the form of light) from the sun takes five and a half hoursto reach Pluto at its average […]

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Check out this billboard!

How do you like this wonderful Times Square billboard for the new paperback release of SECRET SIDE? (Scroll down below it for the full story). Just kidding, dearies! Do you have any idea what a Times Square billboard costs? We’re talking six figures at […]

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Deep (Part 2)

Guess what! After I posted the “I hate small talk” graphic, a friend sent me the one below in reply. Hooray! It feels so wonderful to be understood. There are lots of us. We’re just quiet about it

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Deep

I am not great at small talk. At some point during a town party or barbecue, I have an out-of-body experience, watching myself incredulously, feeling super-awkward in my attempts to play the suburban mom I am. Am I pulling it off? Do I seem to blend in? Can people really be interested in this discussion […]

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