A Commercial Break
If you're still reading my blog, you like my writing.Or you like me. Or maybe a combination of both. Or you're really, really, really bored.Anyway, it doesn't matter. Since 2008, this blog has been a...
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SOCIAL SECURITY PRINCESS
In a few weeks, I will be celebrating (crying and shaking under the blankets) another birthday. Actually, not just another birthday, but THE BIRTHDAY. You know the one -- the one where you can actually...
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BIRTHDAY WISHES
My family is asking what I want for my birthday and I keep responding,"I don't really want anything...." I'm such a fraud. I want a lot of stuff ..... but I'm afraid to ask for it. I don't want to...
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FAT STUFF -- Coming Soon!
COMING SOON TO A COMPUTER/KINDLE NEAR YOUONLY $1.99FAT STUFF is satire at its best, poking fun at the diet industry and our obsession with weight and body image. THE FIVE MINUTE DIET, THE PMS DIET, and...
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SEEING RED SALE PRICE
To celebrate the upcoming release of my new e-short, FAT STUFF, I am reducing the price of signed paper copies of the hilarious romance-comedy, SEEING RED, to only $10.00 a book, plus free...
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FAT STUFF -- NOW AVAILABLE
Diets have been around since the beginning of time. Look at Adam and Eve. They had barely unpacked their bags in the Garden of Eden and right away, Eve reaches for an apple ...... one of the lowest...
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THE MAGIC OUTSIDE
I’m sort of embarrassed to admit it, but I once punched a little girl in the stomach. Of course, I was a little girl, too, at the time and she asked for it. She really did. We were walking home from...
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM!
Tomorrow is my mom's birthday. She would have been 82. I can't even imagine that. In my mind, she stays forever young. I'm actually older than she ever was. Here's a photo of my mother when she was 16...
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MR PERFECT HEARING
An audiologist has ruined Keith's life.My husband is a musician. He has perfect pitch. I don't know exactly what that means but I know it is an asset for him and I know it has to do with how he hears...
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WE ARE THE BABY BOOMERS
We are the Baby Boomers and we love to hear ourselves roar! And why not? We taught the world how to Twist and do The Hustle. We ate the first Happy Meals and rotated the first Hoola Hoops. We...
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I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S BEEN FOUR YEARS SINCE I PUBLISHED THIS. TIME FOR ANOTHER ELECTION -------For more than a decade, I’ve been sleeping with the enemy. Nope, it’s not that one of us is from the North...
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IF MY BODY WERE A CAR CONTEST - Win free movies
Many of you may be familiar with a very popular essay entitled, "If My Body Were a Car." It goes something like this... If my body were a car, this is the time I would be thinking of trading it in for...
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BOSTON BOOK PARTY 2012
Well, we had a great time at the Boston SEEING RED Book Party. Nothing better than a diversified group of women with open minds, full heads, and a couple of Sangrias. The laughs were plenty and the...
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AMBIVALENCE
I was raised with rosaries and holy water and Latin masses and fish sticks on Fridays. I prayed the Act of Contrition every night, I recited the Guardian Angel prayer every single day. I wore the white...
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THE COLOR BUG
Like most regrets, this one started innocently enough. I was only 18 years old, back in the days when 18 year olds were still gullible and easily influenced by advertising (Does she, or doesn’t...
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I LOVE YOU
One of my adult kids has quit saying he loves me at the end of our phone conversations.Maybe his wife or friend teased him about saying "I love you" to his mom.Maybe he thinks it's unnecessary to tell...
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CHANGE HER LIFE, CHANGE YOUR LIFE
I can't say it better than my friend, poet Worthy Branson Evans, when he writes: This is a Facebook friend I've never met. She is a fantastic writer and is indeed incredible. She is a single mom...
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BUY ONE, GET ONE FREE BOOK SALE
SEEING RED -- the award-winning romantic comedy that's about movies as much as it's about love and humor and sex and comedy is having a BUY ONE - GET ONE FREE sale. With a twist ..........Order a...
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