Can I join your group please?

This is a beautiful article about persistence overcoming self-doubt. And about not letting others instill self-doubt in us. Thank you for sharing it, Irene. I'm going to pass it along to my students.

You rock, Hope!

Hope has helped women all around the globe with the publication of her ground breaking book Motherless Daughters while creating support groups for women who have suffered mother loss. What she has accomplished here is a gift to these children. Hope...

Well said, Patricia. I forgot to mention--I heard Mary Karr interviewed on NPR a few months ago and she was talking about how her son doesn't want to read her books, how he'd rather hear her stories--about him and not about him--from her directly...

Thanks for this thoughtful and important posting, Deborah. I imagine that your thoughts about it will morph and evolve over time as your children grow and start having opinions of their own. It's so important for stories of parenting to be told, yet...

Hi Gloria, I didn't do events in advance of my pub date because my publisher suggested against it, given that actual books wouldn't be available for purchase yet and we then couldn't count on those sales. I agreed with it at the time, but that was...

Norah Ephron rules. She rules! I didn't think I had another laugh left in me tonight, but it turns out that I did. Thanks Virginia and Donna, for posting the link.

Kudos to you, Deborah, for knowing what's best for you and your family and having the courage to act on it. In 1996 I sold a proposal for a book about the cultural phenomenon of postponing marriage, and how it had actually made a lot of women I knew...