Archive for September, 2006
Monday, September 25th, 2006
"You’re not nearly as old as everyone says"
The other day I agreed to meet with a woman I don’t know, a woman who wants to be a writer and needed advice on how to get the things she has written published in books. She seemed to be very nice in our flurry of emails, and since I am still a little bit […]
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Friday, September 22nd, 2006
Waking up alive
Okay, I am the tiniest bit weird when it comes to health stuff. I can do something as simple as cut my finger, for instance, and within seconds I have managed to picture my funeral, the remarriage of my husband, and then skip right over to worrying if I really did prepare my children for […]
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Saturday, September 16th, 2006
Radio time
I woke up early this morning to be interviewed by Robin Kall, whose show “Reading with Robin” comes from radio station WHJJ in Rhode Island.
My family was asleep upstairs, and I sat down in the family room with the dog next to me and the sun shining in the windows and got to talk about […]
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Sunday, September 10th, 2006
A patch of O.L.
We have been having a little patch of O.L.
O.L. is a term coined some years ago by my friend Alice, and it stands for Ordinary Life. O.L., we decided, is what is happening to you when all the horrible, terrible stuff isn’t currently happening: your spouse hasn’t just been found in bed with the entire waitstaff of […]
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Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
Taking a kid to college
If there’s anything I hate, it’s crying in public. Unfortunately, breaking down into loud, heaving sobs and smearing my face with mascara is, I’m afraid, one of my personal trademarks. My stepmother has always claimed this is a talent of mine, being able to fully cry, and she’s jealous that she can’t do anything but […]