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It's Saturday night, and I am at Killer Nashville, a three-day conference for mystery writers. I have been here for two days now, and I have Hit The Wall. Not the kind of hitting the wall...
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I heard on the news today that Jenny Sanford showed up at the SC Governor's Mansion with 3 or 4 girlfriends, and they packed up her stuff and the kids', loaded up several SUVs, and headed on back to...
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Sometimes I get an email that sums up my life at that very minute. This one was about the things we HAVE TO DO. And how we complain about them. We HAVE TO schlep the...
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Ace is a lifeguard this summer, and he hasn't had to save anyone all summer long. And he has only dispensed three bandaids. Which led him to ask me, "Why doesn't anyone have skinned...
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From Samuel Taylor Coleridge .... "The man's desire is for the woman but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man."
This quote was included in the A....
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My sister Muffie doesn't like her name and has decided she wants a new one. We were born into the Jones family in the mid 1950s. And my mother had this run off to Paris and be a painter...
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Say you're on an airplane, and you're seated next to a yummy-looking guy reading "Beavis & Butthead's Greatest Pranks." Uh-oh. Not exactly catnip. Maybe even...
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One of the things What to Expect When You're Expecting doesn't prepare you for is watching TV with your teenaged son. Sixteen years have passed since I devoured that book, analyzing every...
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My friend Marti had this great idea for a girlfriend get-together here in the middle of summer. By mid-July, you know the moms around here would show up for a train wreck, or a root canal, ......
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Does your genius bubble up from within, or does it sit across the room hurling ideas at you? Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of Eat Pray Love, asks this question in a talk she gives on my new...
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I read somewhere that men are more radical in their youth. All that testosterone and youthful anger propel them to take to the streets, cocky young roosters eager for fights and weapons and...
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"The blueberries have just come in," says Emily G, the jam lady, the first person I see as I enter the farmers' market in my little Georgia town. I sample and then buy her blueberry...
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Ace had his 18 years and 6 months checkup at the pediatrician yesterday, and, as his doctor had predicted many years ago, he is tall. Six feet five and one quarter of an inches tall, to be...
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Awhile back I was standing in line at Victoria's Secret during the middle of a Big Sale. And the entire range of womanhood was on display here, along with all the questions I had ever wanted to...
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I'm writing a novel about funny girlfriends in their mid-fifties, who laugh their way through the complexities of life. And every time they turn around, they laugh, chortle, chuckle, smile,...
