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Small Changes
Too Much Information
ot long ago, I wrote a note to an acquaintance. It was late. I was exhausted. It seemed that nothing more could go wrong – although more than fifty years on this globe have taught me the truth of ...
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How I gave it up for "Precious"
It wasn’t easy. There was the jealousy. The novel Push by Sapphire was published in 1996, the same year as my first novel, The Deep End of the Ocean. I remember, because there was a News...
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Unfit for Beast or Vegetable
My kids start school in the dark at 7:50 a.m. They ride the bus to school for about an hour. They arrive home at 4 p.m., or, if they have after-school activities, 6 p.m. They eat dinner. They ha...
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All Wrapped Up in Packaging
Well, the holidays have come and gone and most of us have recovered from our injuries. My daughter was able to finally free her curling iron from the plastic case. We don’t think she’ll need stitc...
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Why Can’t a Man Be More Like a Woman?
by Jacquelyn Mitchard
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In the New Year, let’s all have a new attitude – a cool new way of talking about women. Let’s make it just like the way we talk about men, all the time and always have. I’m not being CRANKY. I’m no...
Re-Gifting
by Jacquelyn Mitchard
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Although I first felt guilty, it ended up being fun. My eldest son longs for my Kindle, which is a software and hardware platform used to read e-books and other digital media. When a lucky bit of ...
No, Thanks
by Jacquelyn Mitchard
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There is so much NOT to give thanks for. Last year, my health plummeted – thanks to the ramifications of a long-ago accident – and so did my finances, thanks to the diligent work of a fake “invest...
The Last, Best Moment - Great Reviews Have Begun to Appear
by Jacquelyn Mitchard
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Friends are sending in their opinions and they’re all superlative. People believe that, for an author, the huge thrill comes when one sees the sight of one’s book on the shelves - right there wi...
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