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Author Interview with Margot Starbuck of A Grown Woman’s Guide to Online Dating
I'm excited to introduce you to my dear friend Margot Starbuck this week. Margot's book is days from launching, and I can't wait for my copy to arrive. Enjoy! When did you know you wanted to write this book? Tell us about how it went from idea to big publisher. I was...
In Less than 100 Days/The Renaissance Promise
What do you do when your carefully laid plans are interrupted by a pandemic?
Author Interview with Gretchen Cherington of POETIC LICENSE
I'm honored to have author Gretchen Cherington as my guest today. Gretchen's memoir, Poetic License, is getting terrific buzz well before publication. In it, she recounts a very private side of her well known father, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Eberhart, and...
The Beauty of Crisis, The Joy of Persistence
Can you believe it? Half the year is gone. If you're like me, you likely made resolutions and promptly forgot them with the chaos life has dealt. Funnily enough, I reread the post I wrote after the new year and remembered I had intended to detach some from my adult...
As We Listen to Hard Things
"Never miss an opportunity to keep your mouth shut,” a dear friend used to say. I’ve had too little success living that message. But as the world has turned on its ear, and more people of color have come forward to bear testimony to life as a minority in America and...
Finding Moments of Peace
How are things in your world? Wherever you are, and however the world is in your immediate environment, I hope you'll find a glimmer of peace. Mine have come during walks or when appreciating my new office mate (Oliver, right) while teleworking twice a month...
Five Good Ways Not to Let Crisis Rule
There are times when we scrape to find the good. For me, the current pandemic hasn’t always been one. As an introvert who balances the want for time alone with the incessant need to please people around me, there have been built-in gifts. More time to work. To walk....
The Covid Cleanse/What To Do When Clutter Sparks Joy
It’s well over a month into the worldwide hunkering down. How are you filling your time? It’s been a perfect time to pare down the embarrassing quantities of photo albums and old letters of the past forty-plus years that I’ve...
Managing Menopause and Quiet during COVID-19
How are you doing? I learned the hard way how universally panicked we are regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. I was standing in line at the grocery store recently, the standard six feet away or more from the next customer, when I felt a hot flash coming on. Reflexively,...
Author interview with Rebecca Scott Duvall of Sensational Kids, Sensational Families: Hope for Sensory Processing Differences
If it feels like I posted this interview before, it's because I have. It was among the lost work that resulted when my website was updated recently, and now, I'm including some bonus details. Author and mother Rebecca Scott Duvall has launched her book, and it's a...