Getting Ready for My Close-Up

By Lisa B. Samalonis

The phone rang an hour after my essay on buying a home for myself and my two sons after divorce went live. The caller ID had a (212) area code: New York City.

Reflexively, I let it go to voicemail.

Minutes before I had received an email, a LinkedIn request, and tweet from producers at a major national morning news show: Good Morning America.

Was this some well-coordinated prank? Or was it really a GMA producer calling me, a camera shy and video averse essayist...