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  • Just now reading this...Made my morning. I agree whole-heartedly about the simplistic approach to life being engendered in our kids. Mine are grown now and I'm helping...
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    American born, French by marriage, Israeli by choice, I write mostly about my divided self. My essays have appeared in Under the Sun, Assay, Ascent, The Coachella Revi...
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    BEHIND THE BOOK: BREAKING THROUGH SILENCE Breaking through silence, opening secrets, and writing about all of it can be dangerous and it can be wildly surprising a...
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    I’m Slappy aka Gina aka Bitchy McSlappywine (on Twitter and Periscope). I’m a former pharma crazy, mother of 5 “grown” kids, wife of a firefighter, classy drinker of b...

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  • Thanks for an outstanding article. I downloaded Seesmic and found it immensely helpful. As a 50+ writer, I enjoy tweeting, so I don't think it's a generational thing....
  • Liz and I share an agent, the wonderful Mitchell Waters. Unlike Liz's experience, when he first read the manuscript for my novel, 'The Season of Second Chances', he di...
  • I write poetry, and most of my best work comes in the early a.m. when everyone else is sleeping.  I have insomnia so I'm awake a lot during 3 a.m.  Sometimes I partici...