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More Duh

I was mean yesterday. I don’t know why I do that, act bristly when what I really feel is vulnerable. A defense, I suppose. It bothers me to be as predictable as a Gilmore Girls episode. Yesterday I wrote about an old friend who took me out to lunch. I was all bluster and bravado […]

Duh

I kinda sorta went on a date yesterday. The thing is: I didn’t realize it was going to be a date until I got there. I thought I was having lunch with an old friend. Because, duh. The old friend in question was once a romantic interest, true. But that was like 5 years ago […]

Operation: Relocation

As I’ve mentioned before, lately I’ve been thinking about moving out of the area. With more geographic independence and lots of traveling the country this year, I’ve been expanding my horizons about where it’s possible to live. It probably won’t happen right away but since I’m a planner, I’ve been checking out the options. First, […]

Tools for Writers: Write or Die

If you’re looking to keep up a certain daily word count, Write or Die is a great tool. Enter your target word count of the amount of time you want to write and set the system to reward or consequence. Then, at the pre-set intervals, the system with either show you a reward (think purring […]

NaNoWriMo – Day 2

Things to know about NaNoWriMo: it stands for National Novel Writing Month and every year over 300,000 people participate in it. The goal is to write 50,000 words in one month (average YA novel is 60,000 words). Someone decided that a month punctuated by tryptophan comas is the best month to attempt a pretty difficult […]

Scary

It abashes me to me a cliche, yet at every one of my kids’ milestones I think, “They grow up so fast.” Today is a Halloween for which I’ve been advised my services will not be required. No trolling the neighborhood with my cherubic offspring, in a gang of fellow town moms and their broods. […]

Precocious

In those years when one decides one’s identity – tall/short, funny/serious, book smart/street smart, etc. – I decided I was precocious. The evidence was there to support it. I breezed through school, never expending much effort because learning came easily to me. I read books far ahead of my peers, both in difficulty but also […]

Wednesday News

Hello there! We’ve made it halfway through this week. Here is some book news: 1. Yesterday I posted about an upcoming talk I’ll be doing at William Paterson University on Thursday, November 13th at 12:30. What I didn’t know when I posted is that it will be open to the public! Cool, right? Click here […]

Upcoming event at William Paterson University

I’m excited to have been invited to speak at the Living Writers program at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey on November 13th. Click on flyer below for details:

Wonderful book club visit

It’s always gratifying when a book club decides to read my book. It was especially awesome (and, full disclosure: a bit nerve-wracking) when a group in my town invited me to come discuss THE SECRET SIDE OF EMPTY. It was a book club filled with women I’ve seen at Home and School meetings and on […]