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Why Do We Eat When We’re Not Hungry

When I read about this book in O Magazine, I thought, Hmmm, could be interesting.  Because, you see, I if I’m blatantly honest, I’ve been trying to stay a certain weight all my life.  Ostensibly for health, but really for looks. Roth, in a chapter called “Tigers in the Mind” begins: “No matter how developed […]

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Post-Christian?

Since I have an interfaith audience–which I’m ecstatic about–what I’m about to tell you will shock some, will be well-duh! to others. I’ve not attended church in over a year and a half.  [This may not seem outrageous to some of you, but you have to understand, churchgoing is not negotiable where I come from.  […]

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Spilling Open

Wow.  I just finished the most amazing book.  I’m eager to share it with Liliana when she’s old enough.  I think this would become one of those books that acts as Are You There, God?  It’s Me, Margaret did for teenaged girls way back when.  What a relief, what a revelation–when you realize that someone […]

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Revisions–What To Do When You Don’t Want To Do Them

Fanfare, please!  Ta-da!  We have two winners of John Jodzio’s signed short story collection, If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home. They are, in no official order: Dani Rice & Jess [If the two of you would e-mail me at comment4elissa at gmail dot com (or FB me) with your address, I’ll gladly mail […]

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Bigger Fish

Hey!  Over here! Are you a good listener…an active listener?  Or an eye-wandering, bigger-fish-to-fry kind of person?  Or an interrupter, like me?  [I’m trying, I’m really trying…to SHUT UP!  My mind starts whirring when you start talking, and I’m afraid I’ll forget what I’m going to say.  Still.  I know that’s no excuse!] Here are […]

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