I Wrote to Oprah

Was reading her interview with Eckhart Tolle before getting discharged from the hospital this morning. Thought about that tonight (middle of the night, home, but wide awake at 2:30 am), and decided to write to Oprah.
This is what I wrote before whittling it down to 2,000 characters.
I was sitting in a hospital this morning, waiting [...]

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I Guess What I’m Missing is a Cat

Just got back from a spectacular four-day vacation to Key West, which involved much eating, bicycling, application of SPF-45, and, well, other things that can’t be mentioned on a family blog. One thing that can be mentioned, however, was my visit to the Hemingway House, where I discovered that the secret to becoming an [...]

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A White-Glove Test of a Different Sort

I’m thinking I need a name for the type of person Nina, my protagonist in “Fear and Yoga,” represents. She’s not a soccer mom. She’s not a PTA mom. Politically correct is close. But it’s such an old term. I first heard it when I lived in North Carolina and that was 25 years ago. [...]

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First Book Signing: Notes to Self

Tonight was the first book signing for “Fear and Yoga.” Clifton Commons B&N. Margot told me as we were walking in that my floor-length vest made me look like a witch. Soprano Sue told me afterwards that it had a stain. A photographer for the Bergen Record came to take a portrait of me. Hammed [...]

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Stuff White People Like

UPDATE: Read my correspondence with the Stuff White People Like Guy here.
A friend emailed me a link to Stuff White People Like, a blog that’s apparently storming the nation. Less than three months, and the guy’s already got 10 gazillion hits.
Funny stuff. It’s a tongue-in-cheek guide to fitting in with white people, by knowing [...]

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