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An interesting thing happened last night, although I guess it was technically this morning. Either way, every year for the previous 10 New Year’s Eves, I found myself staying up past the midnight drop of the Time’s Square ball, where I’d normally sit alone in the quiet of the ( Read more... )

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Today it’s been a decade since my dad died. At first I started to say it’s been ten years since I lost him, but that didn’t sound right. As much as I miss him, I never feel as if I’ve “lost” him. He never seems absent to me. Rather it feels as if our relationship has been ( Read more... )

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Today it’s 9 years since my dad died. Every New Year’s Eve, after watching the ball drop, I sit down and write a post for him. This year I knew I wanted to include a certain song in the post, so I toyed for weeks with the idea of writing it down ahead of time. No matter what I ( Read more... )

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I try very hard to stay attentive to the “coincidences” in my life. I’ve come to believe that the people and things that cross my path on a regular basis are there for a reason. And my life has changed for the better since I’ve started to accept that there is a bigger purpose ( Read more... )

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It’s been eight years.

Sometimes it’s still hard to believe you’re gone.

Some days it seems like it’s been forever.

I know you’re still with me

but…

Today I just miss being in the same place that you are.

A hug would be nice right now.


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Ummmm because I don’t have enough to do with back-to-school, soccer, construction, revisions and that little thing called a book launch. I’ve slowly started converting my mom’s slides to digital.


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I thought that I’d do a funny post highlighting some of my greatest birthday presents of all time. I mean-heck I’m 42 this year-I’ve gotten some great stuff. But my mind kind of went here first and wouldn’t go anywhere else…

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As of 2am New Year's Day it's been seven years since I lost my dad and I found myself.  This ones for you Daddy...


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I didn't mean to wait so long to write the final installment of my quest to get an agent. (Sorry about that.)  The good news is that I'm revising my tactics and actively pursuing ways to become a new and improved, more competent blogger.   More to come on that later, but for now it's back to the world of agenting. If you're coming late to the ( Read more... )

I'm back and gratefully a little smarter than I was in Part 1 and 2 of this adventure. When I left off,  I'd just joined SCBWI and even more shocking--I'd signed up for the SCBWI 2007 Eastern NY Conference.  I'm not sure what possessed me, I'm not super spontaneous on a normal day, but to make it even more of a head scratcher--the conference was on ( Read more... )