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resolution #53: read more poetry

Pin It Like many teenage girls, I used to write poetry. My poems (a term I am using very loosely, having just cringed my way through notebooks of them, which I discovered while cleaning out my closet)...

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BlogHer Voices of the Year Awards: I Won!

Pin It I am thrilled to announce that my It’s Time to Re-Think Pink post has won a BlogHer Voices of the Year Award! It received the People’s Choice Award for Op Ed, which is even more meaningful to...

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Best of BlogHer ’13

Pin It As a blogger, it is impossible to come back from BlogHer, the Kilimanjaro of social media conferences, and not feel a deep need to write about it. Before I go all warm and fuzzy on you, though,...

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___ is the new ___

Pin It So this is how my mind works. Or doesn’t. I was so discombobulated with the whole Blogger Idol fiasco yesterday that I couldn’t even think about what I wanted to write for today. The idea of...

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my word for 2014

Pin It The amount of pressure I’ve been putting on myself to find the right word for the coming year is ridiculous. I wanted to have my word ready to go as soon as the ball dropped in Times Square...

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the tools of my trade from rustico

Pin It I’m convinced if I had been writing poetry in one of these Rustico journals when I was a teenager rather than in a “Love Is” cartoon notebook, my poems would have had a lot more character and...

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hey hey hey, it’s world poetry day!

Pin It My favorite poet. I am not a poet, as I think I made clear many years ago (and with the title of this post). I do, however, happen to live with a poet and thought I should pay homage to him now...

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laughing my way to erma bombeck writers’ workshop

Pin It I could never have imagined when I was young and wishing I could write like Erma Bombeck that the prestigious organization continuing her work would name me – me! – Humor Writer of the Month or...

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thank you, erma bombeck

Pin It I laughed so much at the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop last weekend that my stomach still hurts. Since the next one isn’t until 2016, I figure I have two years to recover – and to come up with...

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my writing process — or lack thereof

Pin It My initial reaction to being invited to join a blog hop about my writing process was hysterical laughter. “Are you serious?” I asked, wildly trying to visualize the way words get from my head...

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nablopomo starts tomorrow

Pin It Tomorrow is November 1, which means it’s time to begin NaBloPoMo, an event during which I’ll be writing a blog post every single day of the month. I loved doing this last year, and am excited...

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my best advice in six words

Pin It I got a very nice email the other day saying, “We’re delighted to feature your words in the latest book from the Six–Word series, The Best Advice in Six Words. Your advice was selected from...

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resolution #53: read more poetry

Like many teenage girls, I used to write poetry. My poems (a term I am using very loosely, having just cringed my way through notebooks of them, which I discovered while cleaning out my closet) are...

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BlogHer Voices of the Year Awards: I Won!

I am thrilled to announce that my It’s Time to Re-Think Pink post has won a BlogHer Voices of the Year Award! It received the People’s Choice Award for Op Ed, which is even more meaningful to me...

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Words to Live By Bracelets

We are completely smitten with Carolee’s Words to Live By bracelets, which feature engraves quotes from some of our favorite books, including “Eat. Pray. Love.” and authors like Joyce Carol Oates. We...

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Afghan Women’s Writing Project

After her last trip to Afghanistan in November, author Masha Hamilton (one of our favorite authors – and people) decided it was time to give the women there a place to make their voices heard before it...

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