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I Met My Best Friends On The Internet
Today I bring you another fantastic HERE Year guest post about Friendship. While Jamie raised important questions about the integrity of self and self-worth in our @ Age, Kate Wheeler‘s view strikes...
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The HERE Year Month #8: Wellness
November. Hard to believe. Time is hurtling by faster than I would like. On Halloween night, as we were tucking our candy-addled girls into bed, I whispered to each of them: Please don’t get any...
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“Something Has to Give”
I got an email yesterday from author/producer/activist Laurie David. I met Laurie last April when I attended a wonderful roundtable discussion of her movie Fed Up and her cookbook The Family Cooks at...
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2 Emails About Drinking
Wellness. That’s the topic I’m exploring this month for my HERE Year. I ditched the Halloween candy and began eating well on the first of the month and have been sending my food diaries each night to...
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Wellness Week #1: 11 Things I’m Doing Differently
1. Writing it all down. Every day, I’m keeping a diary of what I eat and drink, what vitamins I take, how much water I consume. By 9pm every night, I email my diary to my friend and nutritionist...
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An Even Happier Hour with Jo Piazza & Jenny Nordberg
It’s 8:32am on a Tuesday morning. I’ve just burned a once-gorgeous tomato/Parmesan/onoin/kale frittata and spilled coffee all over my kitchen, but still I’m smiling. I’m smiling because last night was...
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Peter Pan LIVE! Tonight’s the Night!
Three weeks ago, I posted this pic on Facebook and Instagram and wrote the following: 7+ years ago, I took my baby (Big Girl who’s now in 2nd grade) to a lunch for new moms. I returned week after week...
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ADR Friday Love: Marissa Alperin Studio
Earlier this week, my wonderful literary agent Brettne Bloom brought me to a trunk show for Brooklyn jewelry designer Marissa Alperin. Marissa is a beautiful person and her pieces are gorgeous. In the...
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13 Moments & a Ladybug Winner
4:41am this morning. I sat at my kitchen island with my laptop and my big old mug of coffee and communed with my new characters. Time blazed by I and heard little girl footsteps on the stairs. Last...
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There Is No Right Thing
Monday morning. December 22nd. Christmas is inches away. I sit at my kitchen island, white and clean now, five reindeer carved from tree trunks staring at me as I type these words. The girls are...
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On Mindful Drinking
I’ve made myself a promise. Once a month, I will sit down and write about drinking. Why? Because it’s something I once struggled with. Not in an overly dramatic sense, but in a quieter, probably more...
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Why We (Over)curate Ourselves
I’m exploring Vulnerability this month for the HERE Year. My instinct is that there is a profound, if ineffable connection between vulnerability and presence. Something like: Our fear of being...
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On Vulnerability
… So here I am, happily sharing things that are true and honest, trying to be candid about the good and the bad. One of my favorite posts I’ve ever written, It’s Not All Shiny, dealt with this...
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9 Things I Learned from Jane Green & Mira Jacob
Last night, I hosted a Happier Hour Literary Salon with authors Jane Green and Mira Jacob. Jane talked about her sixteenth novel (!) Saving Grace and Mira talked about her debut The Sleepwalker’s...
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ADR Friday Loves 01.16.15
i’m loving… … this piece on falling in love. … these thorns. … this article on Beethoven’s fraught personal life. … this book. … this question. … this designer. … this honesty. … this How I Came to...
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My coffee is hot, my laptop is open, and I’m feeling thoughtful.
I’m sitting at a coffee shop on the Upper West Side. My coffee is hot, my laptop is open, and I’m feeling thoughtful. A good combination of things. I’m thinking about this blog. What do I want it to...
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A Happier Hour LA with Dani Shapiro & Sarah Manguso
On Tuesday night, I had the privilege of attending a Happier Hour Literary Salon in Los Angeles with authors Dani Shapiro and Sarah Manguso. My friends/colleagues/fellow scribes Claire Bidwell Smith...
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The HERE Year Month #12: Happiness
March 2015, guys. Hard to believe. Time is zipping by and here we are in a new month. It doesn’t feel much like March here in New York City. Yesterday it snowed and it wasn’t a sheepish dusting...
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Happiness or Contentment?
Happiness. I have to admit I have conflicted feelings about this word. I know most people would say that happiness is what they want in life. I think most people would also say that happiness is...
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What Makes You Happy?
What makes you happy? I’ve been giving this question a lot of thought and I think the answer is probably different for each of us. I also think the answer evolves over time as we do. These days, there...
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