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Rewriting The Science: Scientist Says Politicians Edit Global Warming Research – I really think i’m wasting my time in publishing. Following the lead of white house politicians, by god, I should be performing brain surgery.
Watching Marc Levin’s 2005 documentary, Protocols of Zion and alarmed that people actually buy [...]

that summer signs warned of riptide. we ate hot ceviche from aluminum foil and we watched the sky thicken. the clouds were a collection of moths dipping into the cresting waves which had turned black. i started dostoyevsky but couldn’t finish it. she read a sex book and recounted positions and couples taking up [...]

We talk openly about our romantic disasters and family dramas, our problems at work and our battles with addiction. But when it comes to what is or is not in our wallets, we remain determinedly mum. Until now, that is. MONEY CHANGES EVERYTHING is the first anthology of its kind—an unflinching and on-the-record collection [...]

ask any of my closest friends and they’ll confess my morbid fascination about all things death and dying. i was first in line at the bodies exhibit, i once wanted to festoon my walls with rosemary’s baby paintings (i have since been regulated by the girls) and i absorbed both of mary roach’s stiff [...]

i have a whole post brewing about how things have changed for me in the past year – from when i resigned from my fancy media job to pursue the next thing. on august 1 it will be a year since i made the huge, frightening leap and expect a long post on the [...]

Friends who are close to me know that I’ve been hysterical about my cat this week. She’s lost hair all over the place. I woke up next to a mountain of fur that wasn’t her, but the remains of her. At six a.m., naturally, I screamed. She hasn’t been eating and she’s been a [...]

Your mother was sleeping when the Stern’s store manager called. You were in custody, guarded in a room with four shopping bags filled with slouchy socks, neon hair scrunchies, black clogs, and piles of shirts, shorts and bathing suits from the juniors’ section. You walked two miles to Green Acres Mall that Mother’s [...]

At a recent reading you noted that the characters in your stories were all knocked off course by accidents of the heart? Can you talk a little more about that? How fragile a heart is, and how its wounding can be more devastating than any broken bone.
Absolutely. The book was written over the course [...]

2006 is gearing up to be the hottest year on record. storms, floods, 118 degrees in phoenix, record droughts in the midwest, record heat in france, italy and spain. the six warmest year on the planet. we’re six weeks away from the hurricane season, the water temperature increasing year after year = very strong hurricanes.
i’m [...]

When I was growing up, my New Jersey town – Chatham, by the way – was only about an hour’s drive from New York City, but we went in exactly once a year, and we did, as you say, the whole Suburban New Jerseyite Tour – Rockefeller Center, lunch in Chinatown. I vowed that [...]

On leaving home at fifteen…
Actually, I first left home at nine. I was living with my father in New Jersey for a few months, because my mother was busy with her re-marriage and her stepkids, and I ran away with another girl from my fourth-grade class. We packed our bags with extra food and [...]

while there’s a great deal of rubbish on the internet these days (animal porn, kids videotaping themselves robbing fast food chains and too many paris hilton sites), i’ve been immersed in some choice finds (either through friend recommends or random clicks) so i thought i’d spread the love…
good magazine: a bi-monthly mag based out of [...]

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this morning i was in a panic. my boss, who’s the president of a division in a publishing house in which i work, set me up for some face time with the president of our company. THE PRESIDENT OF OUR COMPANY. i work at a large publishing house and the idea of chatting up my [...]

i’m a bit honored to be interviewed by the fine folks at the cruelest month. click here to read our chat. also be on the lookout for interviews with jancee dunn, scott snyder, sara gruen, and the ladies behind this is not chick lit.