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I have this life

Yesterday I chatted with my agent to talk about several items of outstanding business – pages I’m showing her, steps to take on several balls we have up in the air, a conversation I had with an editor. A few hours later, I was winding down my day by deleting emails from my inbox but […]

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The day the music died

The original 16-page (?!?) working manuscript of the lyrics to “American Pie” has been sold at auction for $1.2 million. With the story about the sale, I finally read an explanation of the lyrics that have perplexed me since I first heard them. Although the song is about the death of Buddy Holly, a fact […]

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For you

An ode to my gardenia-scented skinlotion: My sugarplum. My sweet thing. I love you. I love you with the wild abandon of a first crush. Your touch invigorates me. Nothing in the world smells quite like you. I love the memory of you wafting up to me as I go through my day. My darling. […]

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Confession

When the trees start to flower, I am overcome with a bizarre obsession. As I drive around, all I can think of is sneaking up to every flowering tree I see and cutting off branches, then running off with them. It used to be that I used to fantasize about bringing them home and making […]

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What’s in a name

My life would be so much easier if my name was Marie Andrew. Like… orders of magnitude easier. Tallied up, I would probably get weeks or months of my life back that I didn’t have to spend explaining my name to people. Who would think that six little letters could cause such consternation? Well, actually, […]

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The scourge

The other day when I got home, my son looked a bit worried. “There is a deer in the backyard,” he said, waiting for my reaction. M)%#$#^! I am offended by the presence of deer in my yard in principle. It is fully fenced. Also… I LIVE TWO MILES AWAY FROM MANHATTAN. Three turns from […]

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My Immortal by Evanescence

I’ve often said that writing is about remembering. Even when you’re making something up (which is what writing fiction essentially is), you still have to access memories of your own emotions to write something that feels real. Sometimes you have to access things that hurt, things you’re trying to forget. Although most people avoid that […]

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Garden report – weekend of April 25th

I came back from California with some pretty wicked jet lag, so I didn’t get as much done in the garden this Saturdayas I might have liked (oh, napping is divine). But I DID get some good gardening mojo from my trip. I bought two planters for the entrance to my garden, something I’ve been […]

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Ode to Misty

I have had many pets in my life and I have loved all of them. Still, when one goes, it’s hard not to think they were the most special. So is the case with Misty the ferret. I got Misty when the kids were preschoolers. My (now ex) husband doesn’t like dogs, and we were […]

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When is it too late?

I have been watching Bruce Jenner’s story closely recently. I have a transgendered person in my life now and it is stretching my understanding of gender and identity. So although I was on a plane coming back home when the interview with Diane Sawyer aired, I caught up with it when I landed and I […]

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