Category: General
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My reading was a bit thin in 2024, due to our family’s big move to China. But quality over quantity, right? My overall favorite of 2024 was A ROVER’S STORY by my dear friend Jasmine Warga. As I said in last year’s roundup over at We Heart YA’s new Substack… “I love how Warga was…
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Tradition is to celebrate July 4th with fireworks. Big loud explosions of color and light, seen and heard for miles. America loves a spectacle. But this year, my enthusiasm for our country is not at an all-time high. My faith in our democracy is strained. I tend to believe that history moves in cycles, in…
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Wow. On Saturday night, I went to bed to one mass shooting, and on Sunday morning, I woke up to another. We can now mark the time between these tragedies — these atrocities — not in days but in hours. Is this what America’s greatness looks like? I don’t want anyone to have to be…
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Travel, pregnancy, holidays. Lately I feel like life is a never-ending series of obstacles — mostly good ones, but still — that are keeping me from catching my breath. Every day my to-do list grows… then shrinks… then grows even more. How? Help! I love how being an adult is just saying "But after this…
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Well that’s a mouthful. And I even truncated two of the titles! This past December through February, besieged by the chaos of holidays and recurring illness, I indulged in a lot of screen time. I wouldn’t say it was the best use of so many hours… but I always try to make my “creative consumption”…