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I got a cover concept on Thursday. It’s being tweaked and should be ready to share in a few days! I also got my copyedited version, the one that will go to print. The copy editor was sweet [...]

It is gorgeous on Cape Cod today, perfect weather for an important day. This is the view from my window, a special spot which will see a big moment later this afternoon. More to come!

Okay, not exactly.  But at 20 seconds into this video he thanks “brother Pablo,” and ACTUALLY means my brother Pablo, whose company hosted the presentation (below).  So if Pablo is [...]

Next week will mark the first time in my history of dog-mommy-hood that I will go away and my own mom will not be around to dog-sit.  But how hard can it be to get a dog sitter? Pretty darn hard. [...]

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Happy Monday!  I hope your Monday is going as awesome as mine is.  I was just interviewed by Enrique Teutelo, host at Unimas, the Spanish language network.  The interview – all in Spanish [...]

I’ve always been charmed by the beauty of the Monarch butterfly.  I’m not alone:  it is the state butterfly of Alabama, Idaho, Illinois, Minnesota, Texas, Vermont and West Virginia. [...]

Last year, I went totally overboard buying iris.  I was handsomely repaid with an amazing show in just about every color of the rainbow.  I did my best to document the bloom time of the iris but [...]

Writing is a struggle against silence. Carlos Fuentes It is a rare moment when words are not a sufficient container for me to pack in the things I’m feeling. Words are in my marrow. When I [...]

Reasons to add The Secret Side of Empty to your Goodreads shelf: 1.  Goodreads is awesome. 2. It’s always fun to read what other people think of a book. 3.  All the cool kids are doing it! [...]

The six-week old baby I held on September 11th, 2001 is now 12 years old. He has his own YouTube channel and takes out the garbage. Children are great markers of time, like growth charts on a [...]

There I was, texting with a new guy from Match. It was going so well. We’d quickly graduated from messages on the website to an hours-long text conversation about love, trying again, [...]

I have often wondered why I do the things I do and why I don’t do the things I think I want to do.  Thanks to Stamford prof Kelly McGonigal, now I know.  I am a dopamine junkie. The role of [...]

My Facebook feed is aflutter with the accomplishment of Diana Nyad, the 64-year-old woman who swam the 110 miles from Cuba to the U.S. without a shark cage. I may be a bit of a contrarian, but I [...]

I love  to share my beloved old movies with my kids and watch their reactions.  This past weekend, I saw one of my favorite teen movies, Pretty in Pink, with my thirteen-year-old daughter. Pretty [...]